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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 did Ezra claim about his copy of the Torah?
(a) it was completely written by Moses.
(b) it was the work of his own hand.
(c) it was a new revelation from God.
(d) it was incomplete.

2. 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 concluded the two author idea about the same time.
(d) they all came from Germany.

3. What had most early scholars scholars considered that J and E had come from?
(a) in the time of the two kingdoms, Israel and Judah.
(b) around the time of the death of Moses.
(c) right after settling in the land of Canaan.
(d) during the time of King David.

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

5. What does Friedman suggest the combination of the two writers symbolizes?
(a) the reuniting of the Jewish people.
(b) the destruction of Jerusalem.
(c) the changes in Jewish thinking.
(d) the Babylonian captivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an important individual agreement between God and man?

2. What is the first law given in Deuteronomy?

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

4. Where do the authors D and E write that Moses received the Ten Commandments?

5. What is a central part of the Jewish and Christian religions?

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