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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bible show without cover-up?

2. What does the author believe God's story deserves?

3. What is another name for the Ten Commandments?

4. The creation story resembles what creation myths?

5. How does God seem to be taking up ethical matters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can God's inconsistent behavior be understood?

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

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

4. On what and whose precept is GOD: A BIOGRAPHY written?

5. What are three ways in which God is different from the gods of Greek mythology?

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

7. How is God compared to modern actors and Don Quixote?

8. Whose statement does Miles raise at the end of the keynote? What is that statement?

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

10. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What events lead to God becoming Creator/Destroyer/Patron/Warrior? How did Pharaoh force God into becoming a warrior? Why could God not come to a peaceful agreement with Egypt?

Essay Topic 2

Miles says it is revolutionary for God to become the "God of Abraham."

Part 1) Why is this revolutionary?

Part 2) What is God and Abraham's relationship like?

Part 3) What is the importance of Abraham's family?

Essay Topic 3

The relationship between God and Abraham's son and grandson differ.

Part 1) How is God's relationship with Isaac different from his relationship with Abraham?

Part 2) What deal does Jacob offer God?

Part 3) How has God's power and control changed with Isaac and Jacob?

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