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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. How does God indicate his sense of mercy might outweigh his sense of justice?

2. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

3. How does God tell Moses to clear Canaan of its natives?

4. Although his story, previously reserved to Jewish and Christian believers, is the bedrock of what civilization?

5. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Whose traits does one see in God in 2 Samuel?

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

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

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

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

7. Into what does the Tanakh turn the Israelite's religious experience?

8. What is "new historicism?"

9. What is the first prohibition after the flood?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Western civilization is built on the belief that God created humankind in His own image and the Bible is the key to understanding Western character.

Part 1) Name two distinct personalities of God. How does humanity reflect these multiple personalities?

Part2) How is the Tanakh used to create a "theography" of the Judeo-Christian faith? Why is it chosen, rather than the Old Testament?

Part 3) What evidence does Miles give that proves the idea that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever wrong?

Essay Topic 2

God seems to favor certain individuals in Abraham's family.

Part 1) Who does he favor?

Part 2) Why does he favor these individuals over others?

Part 3) What have we learned about God and His ability to pick and choose specific individuals?

Essay Topic 3

When does God realize He is responsible for Israel's social order? What six-part action leads to this discovery? What are the four crescendos that affect the emerging character of God?

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