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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 A Brilliant Mistake.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?
(a) as a fiction, a pious fraud.
(b) as a metaphor.
(c) as a building formula.
(d) as a stop gap measure.

2. What was so attractive about Wellhausen's summary?
(a) it placed a priestly source in a priestly period.
(b) it was conclusive in its finding.
(c) it drew distinctions between fact and fiction.
(d) it placed Author P at the right place in the right time.

3. What is significant in the Ten Commandments story Author E writes?
(a) Aaron plays a significant role.
(b) Moses defers to Aaron's advice.
(c) Moses is never mentioned.
(d) Aaron is the one who gets the stone tablets.

4. According to the laws of Deuteronomy, where was the central place for sacrifices?
(a) Horeb.
(b) Bethlehem.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Shiloh.

5. What are the dates Friedman puts on the two writers?
(a) J circa 780 to 722 B.C., and E circa 800 to 734 B.C.
(b) J from 1200 and 900 B.C., and E from 825 to 721 B.C.
(c) J in the 9th Century B.C., and E in the 10th Century.
(d) J from 848 and 722 B.C., and E from 922 to 722 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol in Exodus parallels a similar object in the northern kingdom?

2. Which group of priests do the writers J and P favor?

3. To determine if insertions have been made in a text, two or more of what elements must be present?

4. When did the early scholars consider that Author D wrote?

5. What does Jeremiah mention in his writing that none of the other prophets mention?

(see the answer key)

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