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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 illness did Simon Peter's mother-in-law have?
2. How many concubines did King David have?
3. What did the wise woman of Tekoah persuade King David to do?
4. What was Pontius Pilate's job during the time of Christ?
5. What was Sapphira's greatest sin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the wise woman of Tekoah influence King David to do?
2. How did Christ's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well illustrate the universality of God's love?
3. Who was Ahinoam?
4. From what affliction did Christ heal Mary Magdalene, and what other possible explanation does Edith Deen say commentators have given for this affliction?
5. How did Jesus heal the woman with the spirit of infirmity?
6. How did Christ usually heal people, and what was different about the way he healed the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter?
7. What role did Mary, the mother of James and Joses, have in Christ's life and ministry?
8. What was Elisabeth's relationship to Mary the mother of Jesus, and what parallels did each woman have in the birth of their children?
9. What role did Philip's daughters have in their father's ministry?
10. Who was Keturah?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the depiction of women in the Bible as daughters, wives, mothers, and widows. What did these traditional female roles depict about Middle Eastern society during biblical times and the status of women in that society? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Deborah and her role as a judge. Was her judiciary power typical or atypical of women in her era? How did she demonstrate leadership during war? Was her wartime behavior typical or atypical of women in her era? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Pick any three of the unnamed women or unnamed groups of women in the Bible and discuss their importance, despite their anonymity. What did their unnamed status say about the role of women in Middle Eastern society during Bible times? How might the stories of these women differ if their societies had been matriarchal rather than patriarchal societies?
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