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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 story is told twice and is structurally the same, yet different in the details and mood?

2. Why is the God of Genesis frustrating?

3. How is the Bible unique?

4. To what literary character does the author compare God?

5. What does David do before the ark?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Gen. 4-11, how does God the Destroyer feel toward human beings?

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

4. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

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

6. What is "new historicism?"

7. How does God deal with humans?

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

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

10. Under Joshua, what does Israel do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Surprisingly after the bloody Exodus, what is decreed about foreigners? Why? How is this different than what one would expect?

Essay Topic 2

What is the accepted opinion of women in the Tanakh? Give three examples from the Tanakh that show the status of women and explain how they relate to the accepted opinion of women.

Essay Topic 3

Initially after the flood God prohibits humans from killing one another or eating any other creature alive.

Part 1) Do humans follow this rule? Explain.

Part 2) What seems to be God's opinion later on humans killing one another, as well as other living creatures?

Part 3) If one could ask God today his opinion on killing living creatures what do you think would be his response? Why?

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