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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. Where is the Bible's first apocalypse recorded?

2. What is there a sense of in Psalms?

3. Who has God come to prefer?

4. Why is God's two-part speech to Job significant?

5. This Book is about love and marriage.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happen after Ezra reads the "scroll of the Teaching of Moses?"

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

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

5. What is the purpose of Gabriel and Michael?

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

7. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

8. What is the gist of Proverbs?

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

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

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 says it is revolutionary for God to become the "God of Abraham."

Part 1) Why is this revolutionary?

Part 2) What is God and Abraham's relationship like?

Part 3) What is the importance of Abraham's family?

Essay Topic 3

Later in Genesis God deals with one man, Abram/Abraham.

Part 1) What aspect of Abram's life is God's primary concern?

Part 2) How does this control affect Abram's life?

Part 3) Why do you think God is so concerned with this one man and specifically one aspect of this man?

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