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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were among the first to control the politics of the Israelites?
(a) prophets.
(b) judges.
(c) tribunals.
(d) kings.

2. What did Isaac ibn Yashush notice in the eleventh century about the list of kings in Genesis 36?
(a) there were no kings during the time of Moses.
(b) Moses personally knew them all.
(c) it includes people who lived long after Moses.
(d) the list is inaccurate.

3. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?
(a) the idea was suspected of trying to undermine the Bible.
(b) the idea was thought to be the work of the Devil.
(c) the idea was too much of a change from traditional thinking.
(d) the idea was too complicated to understand.

4. Where and when does Friedman place the writing of Deuteronomy?
(a) in Shechem around 587 B.C.
(b) in Jerusalem around 622 B.C.
(c) in Egypt around 722 B.C.
(d) in Babylon around 550 B.C.

5. What is an important individual agreement between God and man?
(a) permanence for the throne of King David.
(b) eternal protection for the Temple.
(c) perpetual manna from heaven.
(d) safe haven for Jeremiah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the traditional belief about the authorship of the first five books of the Bible?

2. To what do the books of the Early Prophets bear a remarkable similarity?

3. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?

4. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?

5. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Author J justify the southern calf images while casting aspersion on the norther versions?

2. How does a fifth person come into the picture regarding the Pentateuch?

3. Discuss the period of time when the written compilation of the Bible as we have it today began.

4. How did Hezekiah's son and grandson alter the reforms he had made?

5. What do scholars use to determine the different writers?

6. Describe the locations where the Bible was produced, the lifestyle of the people, and the methods used for writing.

7. When was it discovered that at least two people authored parts of the Bible?

8. What is the traditional belief that Friedman addresses in his book?

9. What does the phrase "to this day" suggest in the book of Deuteronomy?

10. Before the kings of Israel, who were the hierarchy among the Israelis?

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