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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Heschel states that it is important to distinguish between the objective and subjective aspects of what?
(a) Religious sympathy.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Biblical prophecy.
(d) The prophetic consciousness of God.

2. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?
(a) A commandment.
(b) A mystery.
(c) A divine concept.
(d) Easy to explain.

3. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?
(a) Impassible.
(b) Loving.
(c) Redemptive.
(d) Mysterious and terrible.

4. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?
(a) Love and forgiveness.
(b) Prayer and solitude.
(c) Pathos and sympathy.
(d) Action and speech.

5. Heschel describes God as what?
(a) The ultimate judge.
(b) The ultimate source of the universe.
(c) Father.
(d) Someone who cannot be described.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?

2. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?

3. To be a prophet means to identify one's concern with what?

4. What does Heschel say is an end to indifference?

5. One theory for prophets and their inspiration is that they had madness in them that led to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Heschel call indifference evil?

2. What is ecstasy?

3. Does Heschel say God always been considered a loving and good God?

4. How does Heschel think much of the Bible should be looked at?

5. Why does Heschel think it is hard for people to understand the wrath of God?

6. Describe one theory of the state of mind of the prophets at the time they were receiving the words of God.

7. Who was Marcion?

8. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?

9. What is the purpose of ecstasy, as explained by Heschel?

10. What does Heschel describe as the end to indifference?

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