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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 J and E.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was the last judge before Saul became King of Israel?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Joshua.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Ethan.

Short Answer Questions

1. From studying the language, how many authors have scholars concluded worked on the first five books of the Bible?

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

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

4. What does this two author evidence provide?

5. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?

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