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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 allows the Jews to return to their home country?
(a) Alexander the Great.
(b) Cyrus the Great.
(c) Ramses the Second.
(d) Baltshazzar the Benevolent.

2. Primarily, what is Deuteronomy mostly about?
(a) history.
(b) laws.
(c) praise.
(d) science.

3. What was the political structure for the Israelites?
(a) they were anarchists.
(b) they had a tribunal.
(c) they consisted of twelve tribes.
(d) they lived under a king.

4. 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.

5. Why do we know so little about the Hebrews prior to 1200 B.C.?
(a) no one could write before 1200 B.C.
(b) only recently have scholars examined the literature.
(c) no records exist of that earlier time.
(d) they were a closed society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did the first suggestions that more than one writer wrote the Pentateuch have on Christian clergy?

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

3. Which group of priests do the writers J and P favor?

4. What religious practice was done by Hezekiah's son and grandson?

5. What is Friedman's conclusion regarding Author E?

(see the answer key)

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