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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 have skeptics found in the Book of Job?

2. How is Job like Abraham?

3. What does God vow to Israel?

4. What messages frequently contradict one another?

5. For what do the last three Minor Prophets set the stage?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the Tanakh closer in spirit to "Hamlet," rather than "Oedipus Rex?"

3. How does the Book of Ruth portray men?

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

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

6. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

7. How do God's people preserve him?

8. With whom does Haggai deal?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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