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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?
(a) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament.
(b) The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.
(d) The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.
2. What are the three aspects of divine self-discovery?
(a) The "liberator," "friend of the family," and "lawgiver" identities.
(b) The "father," "lover," and "friend" identities.
(c) The "god," "leader," and "interpreter" identities.
(d) The "feared," "ferocious," and "fury" identities.
3. What is the plot of the Tanakh?
(a) To discover where we come from.
(b) The birth of our world.
(c) God's desiring to have a self-image, struggling with that self-image when it becomes a maker of self-images, and reaching crisis when he tries and fails to conceal his originating motive from a single exemplar of himself.
(d) God's love for humanity and humanities inabiliy to follow God's laws.
4. What does humanity reflect?
(a) The multiplicity and unity of its creator.
(b) The sins and transgressions of those who have passed away.
(c) The beliefs of our ancestors.
(d) The free will the creator bestowed upon humanity.
5. Why does the author use the Jewish canon, or Tanakh, for study?
(a) It more clearly shows God's progression from action to words to silence and facilitates in following God's "career."
(b) The author is Jewish.
(c) It is in contrast to the Christian format.
(d) It is in the original form.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what does the author compare the Biblical writers?
2. Why should God fall in love with David?
3. What book and chapters of the Tanakh relate a distinct second account of creation?
4. How does God identify himself to Moses?
5. At what might critics scoff?
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