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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. This Book is a cycle of poems about young lovers attributed to King Solomon.

2. How is Job like Abraham?

3. What does God admit in Is. 51:22-23?

4. What is the suggestion for why God did not dispense with Job rather than argue with him?

5. How is God the loser in the Book of Job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Book of Job a favorite in literary circles and with skeptics?

2. How does God begin when he creates the world and all that is on it?

3. Why is it confusing that the prophets contradict one another?

4. How do God's people preserve him?

5. Why does God need the prophets?

6. Prior to Second Isaiah does God feel joy? Explain.

7. What has happened to the practice of circumcision by the time Psalms is written?

8. At what times during the dialogue between God and Job does one see Elohim and Yahweh?

9. Why is cultic sacrifice a late development in the Judean culture?

10. Why is the Tanakh closer in spirit to "Hamlet," rather than "Oedipus Rex?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

God seems to favor certain individuals in Abraham's family.

Part 1) Who does he favor?

Part 2) Why does he favor these individuals over others?

Part 3) What have we learned about God and His ability to pick and choose specific individuals?

Essay Topic 2

God allows Sodom and the surrounding region to be destroyed.

Part 1) What is Miles' explanation for the scope of vengeance?

Part 2) This story of Sodom is traditionally considered a lesson on morality. How can Miles' explanation for Sodom's destruction change one's attitude towards the purpose of this story?

Part 3) What does this story say about God's desire for power?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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