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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 do in Is. 40:2?

2. Whose laws are codified and entrusted to human custody?

3. What is a mistake God will not repeat?

4. Where do Eloh and Yah send ferocious Sab?

5. In the Book of Job, from whom does God take a bet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does God begin when he creates the world and all that is on it?

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

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

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

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

8. How do God's people preserve him?

9. What are the four things Job does, according to the common interpretation of the Book of Job?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Initially after the flood God prohibits humans from killing one another or eating any other creature alive.

Part 1) Do humans follow this rule? Explain.

Part 2) What seems to be God's opinion later on humans killing one another, as well as other living creatures?

Part 3) If one could ask God today his opinion on killing living creatures what do you think would be his response? Why?

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