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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 can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

2. How is the Bible unique?

3. Through the end of 2 Kings, God is never referred to as a king, instead, how does he speak of himself?

4. What has the Tanakh always been?

5. What did God stop twice from doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two firsts mentioned near the beginning of the chapter?

2. How does God deal with humans?

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

4. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

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

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 traits does one see in God in 2 Samuel?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Miles believes the Bible can be studied as a work of literature that explains God's character from a boisterous all-actions God to finally a silent one.

Part 1) Whose precept is used as a model for this study? How does the information and order of the Tanakh follow this precept?

Part 2) Describe God's character throughout the Hebrew Bible with examples from the text.

Part 3) How does Miles explain why God can be understood in human terms?

Essay Topic 3

There are many firsts that occur between Moses and God.

Part 1) How does God appear to Moses? How does God identify himself?

Part 2) What/whose behavior does God begin exhibiting?

Part 3) Why do you think God's behavior has changed?

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