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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 In the Court of King Josiah.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is seen in the Author E story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?
(a) it mentions only two tribes.
(b) it has the tribes asking for a king.
(c) it only includes the northern tribes of Israel.
(d) it includes all the tribes that make up Israel.

2. What was the book priest Hilkiah said he found in the Temple?
(a) Exodus.
(b) the Torah.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Deuteronomy.

3. What have scholars discovered about many stories in the Bible?
(a) the stories have been over edited.
(b) the same story has often been told twice.
(c) Bible stories are all allegories.
(d) the stories come from ancient folklore.

4. Why do we know so little about the Hebrews prior to 1200 B.C.?
(a) only recently have scholars examined the literature.
(b) no records exist of that earlier time.
(c) they were a closed society.
(d) no one could write before 1200 B.C.

5. What are the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy commonly called by Christians?
(a) the Torah.
(b) the Pentateuch.
(c) the Prophets.
(d) the Ten Commandments.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do the books of the Early Prophets bear a remarkable similarity?

2. What is the status of Aaron in the narrative of Author E?

3. What did the two writers use that alerted scholars to the idea that there were more than one?

4. Why did Frank Moore Cross, a biblical scholar at Harvard University, argue against looking for an author of Deuteronomy after 587 B.C.?

5. What does De Witte say about the idea that Deuteronomy had been written specifically to support Josiah's reformation.

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