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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) Julius Wellhausen.
(c) Savanerola.
(d) Spinoza.

2. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
(a) how the languages have changed over the years.
(b) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.
(c) only what the text means to us today.
(d) whether the text is authentic or not.

3. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?
(a) Jerusalem represented a new beginning.
(b) Jerusalem was a thriving trade city.
(c) Jerusalem was centrally located.
(d) Jerusalem did not belong to any tribe.

4. In what way was Yahweh different from the gods of the people around the Hebrews?
(a) Yahweh has fewer oracles.
(b) Yahweh cannot speak to the people.
(c) Yahweh disallows statues.
(d) Yahweh is not associated with any natural force.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was David anointed King?

2. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?

3. Who were among the first to control the politics of the Israelites?

4. What did Spinoza point out about Moses being called "the humblest man on Earth"?

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

(see the answer key)

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