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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedman suggest is the only good news about the exile?
(a) that the Jews became wealthy in Babylon and Egypt.
(b) that it educated the brightest young people.
(c) that they missed a famine in Israel.
(d) that it only lasted fifty years.

2. Why did it take hundreds of years for anyone to suspect there was more than one writer involved in the written Torah?
(a) because no one studied it carefully.
(b) because the combination was done so artfully.
(c) because no one thought to questions the contradictions.
(d) because there was no archelogical evidence.

3. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?
(a) as a metaphor.
(b) as a fiction, a pious fraud.
(c) as a building formula.
(d) as a stop gap measure.

4. What does Friedman say about Jeremiah's familiarity with Author P before the exile?
(a) that Jeremiah got his material from Author P.
(b) that Jeremiah never heard of him.
(c) that Jeremiah admired what he had done.
(d) that Jeremiah was hostile toward the priestly author.

5. What was so attractive about Wellhausen's summary?
(a) it was conclusive in its finding.
(b) it placed a priestly source in a priestly period.
(c) it drew distinctions between fact and fiction.
(d) it placed Author P at the right place in the right time.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what did Ezra return to Judah?

2. How were books written at the time of the Pentateuch authors?

3. What goes against the First Commandment?

4. When did Professor Eduard Reuss place Author P?

5. What is the great irony of P's writing that favored the Aaronid priesthood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was a fix necessary for the text of Deuteronomy?

2. Why is identifying the time of writer P of significance?

3. How does writer P interject his ideas about miracles and the authority of the Aaronid priests?

4. How did Cyrus the Great figure into the history of the Jewish exile?

5. How did the various versions of the Torah evolve into the one we have today?

6. How does the work of R leave the door open for why the Bible seems to contradict itself in some places and obviously does in others?

7. Describe the great irony of the P version of the Torah.

8. What was the brilliant mistake made in regard to discovering the identity of writer P?

9. At the rebuilding of the Temple, what is a major difference between it and the original Temple?

10. Describe clues to who wrote Deuteronomy.

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