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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 does God admit in Is. 51:22-23?

2. Who does Daniel 8 introduce?

3. What essence of God is the reptilian goddess?

4. What part of God's character is calm and benign?

5. What is an apocalypse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the Tanakh a tragedy?

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

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

4. Why does God need the prophets?

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

6. With whom does Haggai deal?

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

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

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

10. What lesson did God's demand for Isaac's sacrifice teach? Give an example.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What does Deuteronomy mean? What comprises Deuteronomy? How does Deuteronomy exceed previous books?

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