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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Friedman hold early Biblical scholars in high esteem?
(a) they studied ancient languages.
(b) they made their judgements from English translations.
(c) what they had done correctly outweighs their mistakes.
(d) they got everything right about the authors of the Bible.

2. Which King of Judah is given credit for leading the people to worship false gods?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) King Reoboham.
(c) King Josiah.
(d) King Manasseh.

3. What is Author P's interpretation of God?
(a) a gracious and merciful God.
(b) a dispassionate and just deity.
(c) a mysterious and capricious God.
(d) a diety modelled after the pagan gods.

4. What was so attractive about Wellhausen's summary?
(a) it placed Author P at the right place in the right time.
(b) it drew distinctions between fact and fiction.
(c) it placed a priestly source in a priestly period.
(d) it was conclusive in its finding.

5. How does Jeremiah see the Aaronid priests like Author P?
(a) as the true inheritors of the priesthood.
(b) as liberals bent on changing the law.
(c) as usurpers of God's command for Levite priests.
(d) as a priestly class that casts Moses in a bad light.

6. What is Friedman's description of Author P?
(a) a scribe from Judah.
(b) possibly a Mosiac itinerant priest.
(c) possibly a man or a woman.
(d) likely an Aaronid priest and therefore male.

7. What does Friedman conclude about the Tabernacle after the first Temple was built?
(a) that it was burned to prevent idolatry.
(b) that it was set up behind the Temple.
(c) that the it actually existed inside the Holy of Holies.
(d) that it was used to cover the Temple.

8. What goes against the First Commandment?
(a) committing genocide.
(b) worshipping foreign gods.
(c) committing adultery.
(d) bearing false witness.

9. What occurred during the reign of King Hezekiah?
(a) elevation of Mosaic priests.
(b) a return to paganism.
(c) centralization of religion.
(d) appointment of scarificial places.

10. Why does Baruch Halpern eliminate the possibility that a king had written Deuteronomy?
(a) it has restrictions a king would not put upon himself.
(b) it lacks the authority of a king.
(c) it has the language of common people.
(d) it vows there will never be a king in Israel.

11. 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.

12. Why does Friedman say that insertions were necessary in Deuteronomy?
(a) to prepare the readers for the new ending.
(b) to pave the way for a new covenant.
(c) to deny the history of the Jews.
(d) to broaden the story about the role of priests.

13. Who writes his book in much the same way that Deuteronomy had been written?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Josiah.
(c) David.
(d) Jeremiah.

14. Why is the period 587-400 B.C. difficult to understand?
(a) no writing was done at that time.
(b) there is little or no archeological evidence about the exile.
(c) Egyptians and Babylonians did not keep records.
(d) secular history glosses over that period.

15. What is inferred about the Davidic Covenant in the revised Deuteronomy?
(a) a Davidic king does not need a throne.
(b) someone from David's line is always a potential king.
(c) there will always be a Davidic king in exile.
(d) a Davidic king will take over a larger kingdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes into exile with Jeremiah?

2. In their arguments, how do Graf and others who argue for Author P during the second Temple see the Tabernacle?

3. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?

4. From where do the priests of the northern kingdom trace their ancestry?

5. To whom does Deuteronomy give jurisdiction in legal matters?

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