Who Wrote the Bible? Test | Final Test - Easy

Richard Elliott Friedman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Who Wrote the Bible? Test | Final Test - Easy

Richard Elliott Friedman
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened after the fall of the kingdom of Israel?
(a) refugees attacked Judah.
(b) Judah started buildig up its army.
(c) refugees entered Judah and arrived in Jerusalem.
(d) Judah became more insulary.

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

4. Who had been a Levite priest of Anathoth and had never done sacrifices?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Samuel.

5. When did the early scholars consider that Author D wrote?
(a) during the conquest of Canaan.
(b) during the time of King Hezakiah.
(c) during King Josiah's time.
(d) during the time of the fall of Israel.

6. What is an argument against the time of the second Temple for author P?
(a) he talks exclusively about the first Temple.
(b) he never writes about the worship in the Temple.
(c) he never mentions the Temple as having any importance.
(d) he never mentions the Tabernacle.

7. What is the guilt of the Jews that led them into exile?
(a) stopping all sacrifices.
(b) sacrificing in the wrong places.
(c) eating forbidden foods.
(d) worshipping foreign gods.

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

9. What happened to the Davidic covenant after the invasion of the Babylonians?
(a) God had to be reminded of his promise to David.
(b) the king is no longer on the throne and the Temple is burned.
(c) the Temple is rebuilt and a Davidic king is put in charge.
(d) a descendant of David is made governor of Judah.

10. How were books written at the time of the Pentateuch authors?
(a) with little reference to history.
(b) literature and history all jumbled together.
(c) mostly as literary stories.
(d) in bits and pieces that were stitched together.

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

12. Who is most likely the redactor for the entire Pentateuch?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Hezekiah.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) Ezra.

13. From where do the priests of the northern kingdom trace their ancestry?
(a) back to Jacob.
(b) back to Joseph.
(c) back to Noah.
(d) back to Moses.

14. What is in Deuteronomy to set up the possibility of the fall of Judah?
(a) references to being exiled.
(b) references to being pursued.
(c) references to the flood.
(d) references to the last king of Judah.

15. When did Professor Eduard Reuss place Author P?
(a) during the time of the first Temple.
(b) during the time of the Tabernacle.
(c) during the time of King Josiah.
(d) during the time of the second Temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Freidman's analogy to the problem of the fall of Judah?

2. What is the great irony of P's writing that favored the Aaronid priesthood?

3. What does Author P insist about the location for sacrifices?

4. What does Friedman classify as a brilliant mistake?

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

(see the answer keys)

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