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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 happened to the first books that suggested the traditional ideas about who wrote the Bible were wrong?
(a) the books were placed in all libraries.
(b) the books became best sellers.
(c) the books became required reading for clergy.
(d) the books were banned or burned.

2. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?
(a) they all came from Germany.
(b) they were all burned at the stake for heresy.
(c) they all disclaimed the two author idea.
(d) they concluded the two author idea about the same time.

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

4. Who was the fifth person involved in the four author idea?
(a) the one who collected the information.
(b) the one who stitched the works together.
(c) the one who kept the original manuscripts.
(d) the one who found the different stories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?

2. What are the tribes of Israel conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.?

3. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?

4. What does Friedman propose about Author J?

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

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