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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 are the books known as the Early Prophets?
(a) Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel.
(b) Ecclesiastes, Amos, and Obadiah.
(c) Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings.
(d) 1 and 2 Chronicles and Judges.

2. What was different after David died and his son became King?
(a) Solomon became a greater conqueror.
(b) Solomon held elections among the tribes.
(c) Solomon moved the capital to Beersheba.
(d) Solomon was peaceful, not going to war like David.

3. Why did writer P not include sacrificial animals in his account of Noah's ark?
(a) it is not a sacrifice if there are other animals remaining.
(b) Aaron was not yet the high priest.
(c) he is not interested in what happened after the flood.
(d) he was satisfied with J and E in their accounts.

4. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
(a) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.
(b) whether the text is authentic or not.
(c) how the languages have changed over the years.
(d) only what the text means to us today.

5. Who conquered the Babylonians in 538 B.C.?
(a) the Persians.
(b) the Greeks.
(c) the Romans.
(d) the Egyptians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where and when does Friedman place the writing of Deuteronomy?

2. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?

3. By the end of the 19th Century what name does the four author idea take on?

4. Why does Baruch Halpern eliminate the possibility that a king had written Deuteronomy?

5. What does the revised text make clear about the exile?

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