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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The World That Produced the Bible: 722-587 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?
(a) a repetition.
(b) a doublet.
(c) a puzzle.
(d) a contradiction.

3. Who proposed three historical stages for the development of Israel?
(a) Friedman.
(b) Julius Wellhausen.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Savanerola.

4. What unusual speculation does Friedman make regarding the Egyptian bondage?
(a) that Moses did not really lead them out of Egypt.
(b) that they were not enslaved so much as over taxed.
(c) that only the tribe of Levi may have been enslaved.
(d) that the tribe of Levi was left out of the slavery.

5. How is King Josiah killed?
(a) by an Assyrian hanging.
(b) by poison in his palace.
(c) by an Egyptian arrow.
(d) by a Babylonian spear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What King returned to the reforms of King Hezekiah?

2. Oddly enough, where do the Judeans flee when under attack by Assyria and Babylonia?

3. How does J get around the problem of images in the north and south?

4. Why can J and E not be separated on the basis of style alone?

5. What is a salt lake and named so because the salt content is too high to support life other than microbes?

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