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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 type of presence is God in Isaiah?

2. Job is the climax of the Tanakh. What do the books that follow do?

3. Why does Elizabethan society read the Bible more than it did the Greeks' writing?

4. What do the last three Minor Prophets give God?

5. What book of the Bible has long been a favorite in literary circles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

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

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

5. How is God's life saved after the events involving Job?

6. How is the love between the man and wife before and after the reconciliation?

7. To what type of knowledge does the knowledge described in Isaiah refer?

8. What does it say in Isaiah about God's opinion of punishment?

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

10. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Western civilization is built on the belief that God created humankind in His own image and the Bible is the key to understanding Western character.

Part 1) Name two distinct personalities of God. How does humanity reflect these multiple personalities?

Part2) How is the Tanakh used to create a "theography" of the Judeo-Christian faith? Why is it chosen, rather than the Old Testament?

Part 3) What evidence does Miles give that proves the idea that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever wrong?

Essay Topic 2

Miles believes the Bible can be studied as a work of literature that explains God's character from a boisterous all-actions God to finally a silent one.

Part 1) Whose precept is used as a model for this study? How does the information and order of the Tanakh follow this precept?

Part 2) Describe God's character throughout the Hebrew Bible with examples from the text.

Part 3) How does Miles explain why God can be understood in human terms?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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