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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. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?
(a) the idea was too complicated to understand.
(b) the idea was suspected of trying to undermine the Bible.
(c) the idea was too much of a change from traditional thinking.
(d) the idea was thought to be the work of the Devil.

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

3. What does Friedman propose about Author J?
(a) that he was a Levite.
(b) that he came from Jerico.
(c) that he was not a Hebrew.
(d) that he lived in Judah.

4. What did Spinoza point out about Moses being called "the humblest man on Earth"?
(a) it is a lie.
(b) it shows that Moses wrote the first five books.
(c) it is a strange thing to say about Moses.
(d) it is not something he would call himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?

3. Why did one write become designated Author J?

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

5. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?

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