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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 The World That Produced the Bible: 587-400 B.C..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does De Witte say about the idea that Deuteronomy had been written specifically to support Josiah's reformation.
(a) blatantly not true.
(b) a known fact.
(c) a pious fraud.
(d) a clever ruse.

2. How does it appear that doublets have been treated to form the Bible?
(a) they have simply been ignored.
(b) the best one has been selected to include.
(c) they have been cut and reduced to make one story.
(d) they have been left out of the text.

3. Who does the evidence point to as the writer of Deuteronomy?
(a) a non-priestly prophet.
(b) a Levite of Shiloh.
(c) an Aaronid of Hebron.
(d) a Mosaic priest of Jerusalem.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What goes against the First Commandment?

2. Who conquered the Babylonians in 538 B.C.?

3. Where does Friedman place Author E?

4. Who had been a Levite priest of Anathoth and had never done sacrifices?

5. What was the book priest Hilkiah said he found in the Temple?

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