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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 - 11 The Sacred Tent, P.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedman suggest the combination of the two writers symbolizes?
(a) the reuniting of the Jewish people.
(b) the changes in Jewish thinking.
(c) the destruction of Jerusalem.
(d) the Babylonian captivity.

2. Why does Author E's writing about God's commandment cast doubt on the golden cherubs of Judah?
(a) it condemns plating with gold a carved image.
(b) it praises only cast gold like the northern calves.
(c) it omits the commandment about carved images.
(d) it condemns making of images to worship.

3. What is an argument against the time of the second Temple for author P?
(a) he never mentions the Temple as having any importance.
(b) he never mentions the Tabernacle.
(c) he never writes about the worship in the Temple.
(d) he talks exclusively about the first Temple.

4. What observation did Thomas Hobbes make about certain language in the Bible.
(a) the language is unquestionably uniform.
(b) phrases like "to this day" are used to talk about the past.
(c) phrases like "to this day" could only come from God.
(d) the language indicates little change in usage.

5. What was the political structure for the Israelites?
(a) they had a tribunal.
(b) they lived under a king.
(c) they consisted of twelve tribes.
(d) they were anarchists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?

2. What does the weakened King of Judah order concerning religion?

3. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?

4. Why are tribal references important in discovering the different authors?

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

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