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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 The World That the Bible Produced.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the fifth person involved in the four author idea?
(a) the one who collected the information.
(b) the one who stitched the works together.
(c) the one who kept the original manuscripts.
(d) the one who found the different stories.

2. Putting the two ideas of God together, what is the result?
(a) God is detached from his creation.
(b) God becomes both merciful and just.
(c) God is a mass of confusion.
(d) God is totally impersonal.

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

4. Why does Friedman conclude that P was written during King Hezekiah's reign?
(a) the fact that P puts its emphasis on centralized religion.
(b) the fact that P reveres the Mosiac priesthood.
(c) the fact that P favors dispersed sacrificial centers.
(d) the fact that P dates himself in his writing.

5. What is seen in the Author J story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?
(a) it mentions the tribes of Ephriam and Manesseh.
(b) it refers only to Joseph.
(c) it only mentions the tribe of Judah.
(d) it says nothing about any of the tribes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Taken separately, what is the result of the various writings?

2. Why did Frank Moore Cross, a biblical scholar at Harvard University, argue against looking for an author of Deuteronomy after 587 B.C.?

3. Where does Friedman place Author E?

4. What is the guilt of the Jews that led them into exile?

5. Why is the authorship of the Bible a comparatively recent field of study?

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