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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. Whose theory said that the prophets were not talking to God but were making judgments about God's desires from the information they had about God?
(a) Philo.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Spinoza.

2. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Repentance.
(c) The covenant.
(d) Vengeance.

3. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?
(a) The lack of complete consciousness.
(b) The lack of knowledge about who is the source of his inspiration.
(c) The source of his inspiration is God.
(d) The belief that something is happening to him.

4. The fundamental feature of divine reality, present in the prophet's consciousness, is described as what?
(a) Prophetic religion.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Karma.

5. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Detachment.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Obedience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?

2. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?

3. Heschel alludes to the fact that to describe God in any terms implies that God is what?

4. According to some scholars, the goal should not be pathos but what?

5. What does the Stoic sage aim for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Marcion?

4. Describe one view of ecstasy and prophets that Heschel describes.

5. How does Heschel explain the beliefs that the prophets were frauds?

6. What is Heschel's theory of ecstasy and the prophets?

7. How does Heschel describe God?

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

9. What is ecstasy?

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

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