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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) How did all this feel to God?
(b) What deities were part of this fusion?
(c) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(d) How this affected the Jews?

2. What god is He compared to after his transformation?
(a) Baal.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Bathseba.
(d) Mab.

3. What is the order of the Jewish text?
(a) Action to speech to silence.
(b) Speech to action to silence.
(c) Action to silence to speech.
(d) Silence to Action to speech.

4. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?
(a) He takes no action without thinking of man, has no "adventures," and has no divine companions.
(b) He has a wife.
(c) He is peaceful at all times.
(d) He creates a human that is also part god.

5. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."
(b) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
(c) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(d) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the Tanakh always been?

2. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?

3. What does the author believe God's story deserves?

4. What is God's story the key to understanding?

5. What is a "theography?"

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