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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The World That Produced the Bible: 722-587 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?
(a) it allows God to have regrets.
(b) it gives God a greater purpose for the flood.
(c) it makes God more human.
(d) it shows God as an abstract idea.

2. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?
(a) how many pages are in it.
(b) what languages was it written in.
(c) who wrote it.
(d) where it was found.

3. What does Friedman suggest the combination of the two writers symbolizes?
(a) the Babylonian captivity.
(b) the destruction of Jerusalem.
(c) the reuniting of the Jewish people.
(d) the changes in Jewish thinking.

4. What was the political structure for the Israelites?
(a) they lived under a king.
(b) they had a tribunal.
(c) they consisted of twelve tribes.
(d) they were anarchists.

5. What covenant between God and man does Author J favor?
(a) the covenant between God and Jacob.
(b) the earlier covenant between Abraham and God.
(c) the covenant between God and Moses.
(d) the covenant between God and Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What effect did the first suggestions that more than one writer wrote the Pentateuch have on Christian clergy?

3. Who was the last judge before Saul became King of Israel?

4. What did the two writers use that alerted scholars to the idea that there were more than one?

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

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