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

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

3. How does J get around the problem of images in the north and south?
(a) J questions the use of the northern images.
(b) J writes that there are no images.
(c) J condemns molten images only.
(d) J says that Yahweh made the southern images.

4. What unusual speculation does Friedman make regarding the Egyptian bondage?
(a) that they were not enslaved so much as over taxed.
(b) that Moses did not really lead them out of Egypt.
(c) that the tribe of Levi was left out of the slavery.
(d) that only the tribe of Levi may have been enslaved.

5. Going beyond the two writer theory, what have some scholars suggested?
(a) insertions made at a much later date.
(b) six distinct writing styles.
(c) writing by whole groups of people.
(d) editing by the high priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What covenant between God and man does Author J favor?

2. Why does Baruch Halpern eliminate the possibility that a king had written Deuteronomy?

3. How does Friedman build the case that Author E favored Israel and was, in fact, from Israel, probably the city of Shiloh?

4. To whom does Deuteronomy give jurisdiction in legal matters?

5. Who writes his book in much the same way that Deuteronomy had been written?

(see the answer key)

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