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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedman classify as a brilliant mistake?
(a) the identification of the P author of the Bible.
(b) the identification of Josiah as the J author.
(c) the identification of four authors of the Torah.
(d) the identification of Moses as Author P.

2. What does Author P insist about the location for sacrifices?
(a) sacrifiecs may be made anywhere.
(b) the place must be sanctified by a priest.
(c) they must be made in Jerusalem.
(d) sacrifices must be made in the cities designated by David.

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

4. Who does Friedman identify as the writer of Deuteronomy?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Hezekiah.

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

6. What is the third part assumption of the pious fraud?
(a) that religion was still being conceived.
(b) that religion was exclusive to Judah.
(c) that religion was uniform in two kingdoms.
(d) that religion was centralized.

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

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

9. How does Friedman see Julius Wellhausen's summary of the second Temple theory for Author P?
(a) it was logical but ignored major evidence.
(b) it was illogical, poorly put together, and confusing.
(c) it did not hold together logically.
(d) it was logical, coherent, persuasive--and wrong.

10. What is Freidman's analogy to the problem of the fall of Judah?
(a) an American history that ends with JFK.
(b) a British history that ends with Henry VIII.
(c) a movie with the last reel missing.
(d) a Shakespearean play with no final act.

11. How did J's and E's texts probably originate?
(a) from writings of Moses.
(b) as literal translations.
(c) in oral tradition.
(d) in scholarly studies.

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

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

14. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?
(a) as a fiction, a pious fraud.
(b) as a building formula.
(c) as a metaphor.
(d) as a stop gap measure.

15. From where did some of the inclusions into the Pentateuch come?
(a) the Book of Generations.
(b) the Davidic traditions.
(c) the Book of the Dead.
(d) the apocrypha.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were books written at the time of the Pentateuch authors?

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

4. What is Author P's interpretation of God?

5. Who goes into exile with Jeremiah?

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