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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 do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?

2. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"

3. After the man and woman are punished, what perpetual punishments are hard and painful?

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

5. Why do the Christians move the prophets from the middle to the end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is God compared to an immature individual?

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

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

6. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

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

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

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

10. How is the Bible different from both saga and classical epic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does God strike up a deal with Satan? How does the Book of Job examine the dark side of God? How does God's biography differ from traditional fables?

Essay Topic 2

What plants the seeds of prophecy later in the text? How does Miles describe God's and his chosen people's personality mentioned in chapter three? What do the Israelites forget during their sojourn in Egypt?

Essay Topic 3

Later in Genesis God deals with one man, Abram/Abraham.

Part 1) What aspect of Abram's life is God's primary concern?

Part 2) How does this control affect Abram's life?

Part 3) Why do you think God is so concerned with this one man and specifically one aspect of this man?

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