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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. 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) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.
(d) how the languages have changed over the years.

2. How long has the Bible been in existence?
(a) thousands of years.
(b) five hundred years.
(c) two thousand years.
(d) a millenium.

3. What is a salt lake and named so because the salt content is too high to support life other than microbes?
(a) the Red Sea.
(b) the Mediterranean Sea.
(c) the Sea of Galilee.
(d) the Dead Sea.

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

5. What is the traditional belief about the authorship of the first five books of the Bible?
(a) that Noah wrote them.
(b) that Adam wrote them.
(c) that Moses wrote them.
(d) that Isaiah wrote them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have scholars discovered about many stories in the Bible?

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

3. What were the cherubs inside the Holy of Holies?

4. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?

5. What is the common mispronunciation of the name, Yahweh?

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