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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 The World That Produced the Bible: 1200-722 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the authorship of the Bible a comparatively recent field of study?
(a) for centuries people never read the Bible.
(b) for centuries the clergy accepted the pat answers.
(c) for centuries no one really read the Bible.
(d) for centuries the authorship was a guarded secret.

3. Why do we know so little about the Hebrews prior to 1200 B.C.?
(a) only recently have scholars examined the literature.
(b) they were a closed society.
(c) no one could write before 1200 B.C.
(d) no records exist of that earlier time.

4. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?
(a) a lampstand with seven candles.
(b) the original stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
(c) the original copies of the Torah.
(d) a tree that symbolized Yahweh.

5. What did Isaac ibn Yashush notice in the eleventh century about the list of kings in Genesis 36?
(a) it includes people who lived long after Moses.
(b) Moses personally knew them all.
(c) the list is inaccurate.
(d) there were no kings during the time of Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the pressure to unite under a King?

2. What are the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy commonly called by Christians?

3. What observation did Thomas Hobbes make about certain language in the Bible.

4. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?

5. In what way was Yahweh different from the gods of the people around the Hebrews?

(see the answer key)

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