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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. How can God's "steadfast love" be translated?

2. Who is a Jewish orphan who later marries Ahasuerus, the king of Persia?

3. Where do Eloh and Yah send ferocious Sab?

4. In Isaiah God is holy because of what, rather than power?

5. Why does the Tanakh begin with its climax and descend from there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the gist of Proverbs?

2. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

3. Prior to Second Isaiah does God feel joy? Explain.

4. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

5. Are the three Major Prophets' messages manic depressive and psychotic or sane and calm? Why?

6. Why does God need the prophets?

7. Why is it confusing that the prophets contradict one another?

8. How did Song of Songs, which is a secular cycle of poems about young lovers, enter the Hebrew canon?

9. When does God first feel pain?

10. Why is cultic sacrifice a late development in the Judean culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Later in Genesis God deals with one man, Abram/Abraham.

Part 1) What aspect of Abram's life is God's primary concern?

Part 2) How does this control affect Abram's life?

Part 3) Why do you think God is so concerned with this one man and specifically one aspect of this man?

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

The relationship between God and Abraham's son and grandson differ.

Part 1) How is God's relationship with Isaac different from his relationship with Abraham?

Part 2) What deal does Jacob offer God?

Part 3) How has God's power and control changed with Isaac and Jacob?

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