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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

2. What does the keynote, "The Image and the Original" provide?

3. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

4. What are the traits that come to the fore?

5. What does war do to God?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Miles disagree with systematic theologians and the character and actions of God?

2. In Gen. 4-11, how does God the Destroyer feel toward human beings?

3. Describe the god Baal.

4. How is God compared to modern actors and Don Quixote?

5. On what and whose precept is GOD: A BIOGRAPHY written?

6. What did Neil Simon take for granted when he writes the play "God's Favorite?"

7. How does God show mercy towards the Israelites after the destruction in Deuteronomy?

8. Whose statement does Miles raise at the end of the keynote? What is that statement?

9. Into what does the Tanakh turn the Israelite's religious experience?

10. How do the Israelites respond to Moses leading them in the desert? How does God respond to them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

God allows Sodom and the surrounding region to be destroyed.

Part 1) What is Miles' explanation for the scope of vengeance?

Part 2) This story of Sodom is traditionally considered a lesson on morality. How can Miles' explanation for Sodom's destruction change one's attitude towards the purpose of this story?

Part 3) What does this story say about God's desire for power?

Essay Topic 2

Miles says it is revolutionary for God to become the "God of Abraham."

Part 1) Why is this revolutionary?

Part 2) What is God and Abraham's relationship like?

Part 3) What is the importance of Abraham's family?

Essay Topic 3

Western civilization is built on the belief that God created humankind in His own image and the Bible is the key to understanding Western character.

Part 1) Name two distinct personalities of God. How does humanity reflect these multiple personalities?

Part2) How is the Tanakh used to create a "theography" of the Judeo-Christian faith? Why is it chosen, rather than the Old Testament?

Part 3) What evidence does Miles give that proves the idea that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever wrong?

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