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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 In the Court of King Josiah.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does J get around the problem of images in the north and south?
(a) J says that Yahweh made the southern images.
(b) J writes that there are no images.
(c) J questions the use of the northern images.
(d) J condemns molten images only.

2. What are the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy commonly called by Christians?
(a) the Prophets.
(b) the Torah.
(c) the Ten Commandments.
(d) the Pentateuch.

3. How does Friedman build the case that Author E favored Israel and was, in fact, from Israel, probably the city of Shiloh?
(a) through the process of elimination.
(b) through the coded messages in the story.
(c) through historical and archeological discoveries.
(d) through analysis of the Ten Commandments story.

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

5. What is significant in the Ten Commandments story Author E writes?
(a) Moses is never mentioned.
(b) Aaron plays a significant role.
(c) Aaron is the one who gets the stone tablets.
(d) Moses defers to Aaron's advice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is seen in the Author E story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?

2. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?

3. What are the books known as the Early Prophets?

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

5. When was David anointed King?

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