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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. Most often, whose words do the prophets speak?

2. What does the Book of Ruth not gloss over?

3. How is Job like Abraham?

4. God reduces Job to silence, but what does Job do to God thereafter?

5. Who is Sherah?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

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

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

5. How does the Book of Ruth portray men?

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

God's creation does not turn out as expected from the beginning.

Part 1) Why do Adam and Eve disobey God?

Part 2) What does God require of Adam and Eve?

Part 3) How does God handle this disobedience?

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