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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 J and E.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
(a) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.
(b) how the languages have changed over the years.
(c) whether the text is authentic or not.
(d) only what the text means to us today.

2. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?
(a) the original copies of the Torah.
(b) a lampstand with seven candles.
(c) the original stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
(d) a tree that symbolized Yahweh.

3. From studying the language, how many authors have scholars concluded worked on the first five books of the Bible?
(a) nine.
(b) three.
(c) two.
(d) four.

4. Where does Author J place Abraham in the story of genesis?
(a) in the city Peni-El, which King Jeroboam had built in Israel.
(b) in Hebron, the capital city of Judah under King David.
(c) in Jerusalem before it was called Jerusalem.
(d) in Shechem, the capital of Israel.

5. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?
(a) the idea was thought to be the work of the Devil.
(b) the idea was too complicated to understand.
(c) the idea was suspected of trying to undermine the Bible.
(d) the idea was too much of a change from traditional thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Isaac ibn Yashush notice in the eleventh century about the list of kings in Genesis 36?

2. What were the cherubs inside the Holy of Holies?

3. What have scholars discovered about many stories in the Bible?

4. What writer became known as Author D?

5. How does it appear that doublets have been treated to form the Bible?

(see the answer key)

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