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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 do the Biblical writers do?
(a) They criticize the Israelites.
(b) They criticize God.
(c) They ramble on about stories from the past.
(d) They testify about God.

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

3. What is another name for the Ten Commandments?
(a) God's Rules.
(b) The Ten Laws.
(c) The Decalogue.
(d) The Stone Tablet.

4. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?
(a) It is the true order and should not be changed.
(b) For dramatic effect.
(c) God asks to have the order kept in its original form.
(d) They adopt the codex as a way of preserving the contents of their ancient scrolls.

5. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?
(a) The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
(b) The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Old Testament.
(d) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what have believers grown accustomed?

2. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

3. How is God's interaction with Moses different from that with Abraham?

4. What is the name of the Hebrew Bible?

5. What has the Tanakh always been?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Israelites respond to Moses leading them in the desert? How does God respond to them?

2. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

3. How is Elijah's "death" different from those of Jacob, Moses, Joshua, and David?

4. What part of Abram/Abraham does God personally control?

5. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

6. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

7. By using foreign nations to punish his people, how is God opening the door to other nations?

8. How is God compared to an immature individual?

9. How does Miles disagree with systematic theologians and the character and actions of God?

10. How does God show mercy towards the Israelites after the destruction in Deuteronomy?

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