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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is God allowing himself to be transformed in Isaiah?
(a) To an unhappy and unloved God.
(b) To be emotionally transformed from his wrathful, vengeful, remorseful past.
(c) To a more wrath-filled God.
(d) To a wrathful, vengeful, and remorseful God.

2. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?
(a) In a burning bush.
(b) In an apple.
(c) In a cloud.
(d) In a whirlwind.

3. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?
(a) The Bible is full of fictional tales.
(b) The Bible may be appreciated as literature.
(c) All religions are equal and true.
(d) Both Judaism and Christianity are the true religions.

4. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?
(a) Esther's climb to royalty.
(b) The relationship between God and Israel.
(c) The prostitute that Jesus saves.
(d) The life of Ruth.

5. What has the Tanakh always been?
(a) The story of God's struggle to be polytheistic.
(b) A guide to the godly life.
(c) The change of God from monotheism to polytheism.
(d) The story of God's inner conflict being resolved into monotheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?

2. Why does the Tanakh begin with its climax and descend from there?

3. What is NOT God's motive for creating humankind, making a covenant with Abraham, delivering Israel from Egypt, or driving the Canaanites from the land before them?

4. How is the Hebrew God different from those of Greek mythology?

5. How does God refer to himself as female?

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