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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 does God give to himself as an out from the broken covenant?

2. What is a "theography?"

3. What is the Tanakh's one God's two strikingly distinct personalities?

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

5. How and why does God create a female?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the god Baal.

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

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

6. What are the "Deuteronomistic History?"

7. What is "new historicism?"

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What events lead to God becoming Creator/Destroyer/Patron/Warrior? How did Pharaoh force God into becoming a warrior? Why could God not come to a peaceful agreement with Egypt?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

God declares "I AM WHO I AM."

Part 1) What does this mean?

Part 2) Why is he able to declare himself in this way?

Part 3) How have God's previous actions shown this to be a true declaration?

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