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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. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?
(a) where it was found.
(b) how many pages are in it.
(c) who wrote it.
(d) what languages was it written in.

2. Who proposed three historical stages for the development of Israel?
(a) Friedman.
(b) Savanerola.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Julius Wellhausen.

3. What story does Friedman use to illustrate the two author concept?
(a) the crossing of the Red Sea.
(b) the sacrifice of Isaac.
(c) the creation.
(d) the flood.

4. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?
(a) the idea was thought to be the work of the Devil.
(b) the idea was suspected of trying to undermine the Bible.
(c) the idea was too complicated to understand.
(d) the idea was too much of a change from traditional thinking.

5. What were the cherubs inside the Holy of Holies?
(a) abstract statues of angels.
(b) two statues of a four-legged animals with wings and the heads of humans.
(c) statues of baby angels carrying bows and arrows.
(d) statues of golden calves with wings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different after David died and his son became King?

2. What does Friedman suggest the combination of the two writers symbolizes?

3. By the end of the 19th Century what name does the four author idea take on?

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

5. What did Solomon build that was larger than the Temple?

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