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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 was the book priest Hilkiah said he found in the Temple?
(a) Deuteronomy.
(b) Genesis.
(c) the Torah.
(d) Exodus.

2. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?
(a) a contradiction.
(b) a doublet.
(c) a puzzle.
(d) a repetition.

3. 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.

4. Why does Cross propose that Deuteronomy was written during the reign of King Josiah?
(a) at that time there was a need for more information.
(b) at that time things were looking rosy for the kingdom.
(c) at that time scholarship was prevelent in the kingdom.
(d) at that time writers had more time to write.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to the first books that suggested the traditional ideas about who wrote the Bible were wrong?

3. Who does the evidence point to as the writer of Deuteronomy?

4. Who allows the Jews to return to their home country?

5. What does Friedman speculate held the exiled Jews together?

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