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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. Why do the Jew leave the text where it is?

2. What is the purpose of the second interlude, "Does God Fail?"

3. To what have believers grown accustomed?

4. What is the order of the Jewish text?

5. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is God compared to an immature individual?

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

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

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

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

7. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

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

9. How can one gain insight into the Western ideal of character without being Jewish or Christian?

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

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 2

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 3

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?

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