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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 tribe is the only one to survive the exile as an intact entity?

2. What is inherently unstable in God?

3. What does God vow to Israel?

4. What do the six books from Song of Songs to Daniel share?

5. What is an apocalypse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the gist of Proverbs?

10. How do God's people preserve him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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