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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. In the Book of Job, from whom does God take a bet?
(a) Satan.
(b) Elohim.
(c) Job.
(d) Yahweh.

2. Why might monotheism have spread 500 years before Christianity?
(a) If the Jews had kept their faith in God.
(b) If Ezra had insisted the Jews marry into other cultures.
(c) If Ezra had not demanded the remnant of the Jews to divorce their non-Jewish wives and expel their children.
(d) If the Jews had not died out.

3. Where is the Bible's first apocalypse recorded?
(a) Is. 24: 17-23.
(b) Song of Songs 14.
(c) Exodus 2-16.
(d) Daniel 17-25.

4. This Book is a cycle of poems about young lovers attributed to King Solomon.
(a) Psalms.
(b) Song of Songs.
(c) Proverbs.
(d) Job.

5. Who is Sherah?
(a) A goddess of creativity, wisdom, and skill.
(b) The messiah.
(c) God's companion.
(d) Abraham's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of presence is God in Isaiah?

2. What is an apocalypse?

3. What premise do Job's friends take?

4. Who are the three major prophets?

5. Who tempts Yah to impose great suffering on Job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does God need the prophets?

2. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

3. How did Song of Songs, which is a secular cycle of poems about young lovers, enter the Hebrew canon?

4. Are the three Major Prophets' messages manic depressive and psychotic or sane and calm? Why?

5. Why is the Book of Job a favorite in literary circles and with skeptics?

6. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

7. How is the love between the man and wife before and after the reconciliation?

8. Why is cultic sacrifice a late development in the Judean culture?

9. To what type of knowledge does the knowledge described in Isaiah refer?

10. What lesson did God's demand for Isaac's sacrifice teach? Give an example.

(see the answer keys)

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