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

2. 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.

3. What observation did Thomas Hobbes make about certain language in the Bible.
(a) the language indicates little change in usage.
(b) phrases like "to this day" are used to talk about the past.
(c) the language is unquestionably uniform.
(d) phrases like "to this day" could only come from God.

4. Why does Author E's writing about God's commandment cast doubt on the golden cherubs of Judah?
(a) it condemns plating with gold a carved image.
(b) it omits the commandment about carved images.
(c) it condemns making of images to worship.
(d) it praises only cast gold like the northern calves.

5. 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 condemns molten images only.
(d) J questions the use of the northern images.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why are tribal references important in discovering the different authors?

4. Where does Friedman place Author E?

5. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?

(see the answer key)

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