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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. How are the Jews saved?

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

3. How many solutions are there to the "problem of evil?"

4. What messages frequently contradict one another?

5. What does God do in Is. 40:2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What proof is there that Job silences God?

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

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

4. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

5. How are God and Israel brought back together in the Book of Daniel?

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

7. Are the three Major Prophets' messages manic depressive and psychotic or sane and calm? Why?

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

9. How did Song of Songs, which is a secular cycle of poems about young lovers, enter the Hebrew canon?

10. What are the four things Job does, according to the common interpretation of the Book of Job?

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

What is the purpose of the Book of Leviticus? How did the book get its name? What do the procedures described in Leviticus do to God?

Essay Topic 3

Why does God strike up a deal with Satan? How does the Book of Job examine the dark side of God? How does God's biography differ from traditional fables?

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