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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 Two Kingdoms, Two Writers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
(a) whether the text is authentic or not.
(b) only what the text means to us today.
(c) how the languages have changed over the years.
(d) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.

2. What did Spinoza point out about Moses being called "the humblest man on Earth"?
(a) it is not something he would call himself.
(b) it is a strange thing to say about Moses.
(c) it is a lie.
(d) it shows that Moses wrote the first five books.

3. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?
(a) they all disclaimed the two author idea.
(b) they all came from Germany.
(c) they were all burned at the stake for heresy.
(d) they concluded the two author idea about the same time.

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

5. What did the two writers use that alerted scholars to the idea that there were more than one?
(a) each writes from a different time frame.
(b) each uses personal references.
(c) each uses a different ancient language.
(d) each writes in different language, style, and interests.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the difference in the two writers approach to the ark of the covenant?

3. When was David anointed King?

4. What does this two author evidence provide?

5. Where does Author J place Abraham in the story of genesis?

(see the answer key)

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