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

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

3. What is different about these two texts?
(a) They are in different orders.
(b) They have different subject matter.
(c) They have varying beliefs.
(d) They are from two different cultures.

4. What is unimportant in Genesis 1, but becomes a matter of shame in Genesis 2?
(a) The snake in the garden.
(b) The man and woman being different.
(c) The apple.
(d) The couple's nakedness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does war do to God?

2. Why did the horrible destruction threatened in Deuteronomy 28 have to take place?

3. To what literary character does the author compare God?

4. What is the purpose of Chapter One, the Prelude, "Can God's Life Be Written?"

5. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the frightful Yahweh act towards the man and the woman after they are punished and before they are expelled from the garden?

2. How does God deal with humans?

3. How do critics and scholars differ on their approach to literary characters?

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

5. What does God invite readers to do, at which critics might scoff? Why?

6. Describe the god Baal.

7. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

8. How are the two personalities of God different?

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

10. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

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