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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 Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

2. What does Nathan's oracle suggest as the reason God adopts Solomon rather than David?

3. Of what is there no indication?

4. How and why does God create a female?

5. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do critics and scholars differ on their approach to literary characters?

4. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

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

6. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

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

8. What belief continues to set Western civilization apart from, for example, the Japanese?

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

10. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

God's creation does not turn out as expected from the beginning.

Part 1) Why do Adam and Eve disobey God?

Part 2) What does God require of Adam and Eve?

Part 3) How does God handle this disobedience?

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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