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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. Why is the authorship of the Bible a comparatively recent field of study?
(a) for centuries the clergy accepted the pat answers.
(b) for centuries the authorship was a guarded secret.
(c) for centuries no one really read the Bible.
(d) for centuries people never read the Bible.

2. What is a salt lake and named so because the salt content is too high to support life other than microbes?
(a) the Mediterranean Sea.
(b) the Red Sea.
(c) the Sea of Galilee.
(d) the Dead Sea.

3. How is King Josiah killed?
(a) by an Egyptian arrow.
(b) by a Babylonian spear.
(c) by an Assyrian hanging.
(d) by poison in his palace.

4. What is one reason that the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem was unsuccessful?
(a) Egypt came to war with Assyria.
(b) Hezekiah married an Assyrian princess.
(c) supplies were being smuggled in from the south.
(d) Hezekiah had built a tunnel under the city to bring in fresh water.

5. What are the dates Friedman puts on the two writers?
(a) J from 848 and 722 B.C., and E from 922 to 722 B.C.
(b) J in the 9th Century B.C., and E in the 10th Century.
(c) J from 1200 and 900 B.C., and E from 825 to 721 B.C.
(d) J circa 780 to 722 B.C., and E circa 800 to 734 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Davidic covenant after the invasion of the Babylonians?

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

3. How does Friedman remind the reader that one can only really understand the exile?

4. What is the difference in the two writers approach to the ark of the covenant?

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

(see the answer key)

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