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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 effect does God's decision to take the bet have on Job?

2. Where is the Bible's first apocalypse recorded?

3. What does Job choose over God?

4. Who is Sherah?

5. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does God first feel pain?

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

3. What has happened to the practice of circumcision by the time Psalms is written?

4. At what times during the dialogue between God and Job does one see Elohim and Yahweh?

5. With whom does Haggai deal?

6. How are God and Israel brought back together in the Book of Daniel?

7. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

8. What does it say in Isaiah about God's opinion of punishment?

9. Why does God need the prophets?

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

God's creation does not turn out as expected from the beginning.

Part 1) Why do Adam and Eve disobey God?

Part 2) What does God require of Adam and Eve?

Part 3) How does God handle this disobedience?

Essay Topic 2

What events lead to God becoming Creator/Destroyer/Patron/Warrior? How did Pharaoh force God into becoming a warrior? Why could God not come to a peaceful agreement with Egypt?

Essay Topic 3

What does Deuteronomy mean? What comprises Deuteronomy? How does Deuteronomy exceed previous books?

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