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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 - 11 The Sacred Tent, P.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the snake sculpture that Moses had built in the wilderness?
(a) it was taken by the Assyrians.
(b) copies were made for all areas of the kingdom.
(c) Hezekiah destroyed it.
(d) it was brought to the Temple.

2. Beside the references to Yahweh or El, are there other differences between J and E?
(a) No, there are no stylistic differences.
(b) Yes, there are distinct stylistic differences.
(c) Yes, there are narrative differences.
(d) No, there are no seemingly contradictory statements.

3. In their arguments, how do Graf and others who argue for Author P during the second Temple see the Tabernacle?
(a) as a tradition that Moses perpetrated.
(b) as a device to link Moses with the second Temple.
(c) as a fabrication to preserve the blueprints of the Temple.
(d) as an unimportant artifact that was left in the desert.

4. What is a central part of the Jewish and Christian religions?
(a) that God gives advice to humankind.
(b) that God never speaks to humankind.
(c) that God makes covenants with humankind.
(d) that God takes tribute from humankind.

5. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?
(a) Jerusalem did not belong to any tribe.
(b) Jerusalem represented a new beginning.
(c) Jerusalem was centrally located.
(d) Jerusalem was a thriving trade city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the tribes of Israel conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.?

2. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?

3. When did Professor Eduard Reuss place Author P?

4. Oddly enough, where do the Judeans flee when under attack by Assyria and Babylonia?

5. What had most early scholars scholars considered that J and E had come from?

(see the answer key)

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