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

2. What is the difference in the two writers approach to the ark of the covenant?
(a) J writes extensively about it but E never mentions it.
(b) E praises it because it is in Shechem.
(c) E writes that it was destroyed in a fire.
(d) J thinks it is less important than E does.

3. What is seen in the Author E story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?
(a) it has the tribes asking for a king.
(b) it includes all the tribes that make up Israel.
(c) it mentions only two tribes.
(d) it only includes the northern tribes of Israel.

4. What is the traditional belief about the authorship of the first five books of the Bible?
(a) that Isaiah wrote them.
(b) that Noah wrote them.
(c) that Moses wrote them.
(d) that Adam wrote them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual speculation does Friedman make regarding the Egyptian bondage?

2. Who became prophets?

3. What were the cherubs inside the Holy of Holies?

4. Who proposed three historical stages for the development of Israel?

5. What was the political structure for the Israelites?

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