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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 does God do in Is. 40:2?
(a) He begins to love his creation.
(b) He feels regret.
(c) He reaches the conclusion that he made an appropriate decision regarding the Israelites.
(d) He almost admits that his punishment went too far.

2. Whose laws are codified and entrusted to human custody?
(a) Eloh.
(b) Mot.
(c) Sab.
(d) Yah.

3. What does prophecy combine?
(a) Teaching, tutoring, and tilling.
(b) Meaning, movement, and morals.
(c) Preaching, politics, and poetry.
(d) Reading, religion, and reason.

4. Since Job does not repent for offenses he did not commit, who must repent?
(a) His friends.
(b) Job will still repent because that is God's wish.
(c) Satan.
(d) God.

5. God reduces Job to silence, but what does Job do to God thereafter?
(a) Silences him.
(b) He embarrasses him.
(c) He humiliates him.
(d) He harrasses him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the last three Minor Prophets give God?

2. In what Book is God never mentioned, and the Jews' religion is not even a secondary feature of their identity?

3. The Book of Job is the Tanakh's most conscious confrontation with what side of God?

4. What is inherently unstable in God?

5. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

3. How do God's people preserve him?

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

5. What happen after Ezra reads the "scroll of the Teaching of Moses?"

6. When does God first feel pain?

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

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

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

10. Why does God need the prophets?

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