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

2. According to Friedman's theory, when does that place Author P in time?
(a) during the time of King David.
(b) during the time of the conquest of Canaan.
(c) during the time of the exile.
(d) during the time of the first Temple.

3. How is Baruch mentioned in the book of Jeremiah?
(a) as a replacement for Jeremiah.
(b) as a brother of Jeremiah.
(c) as writing for Jeremiah.
(d) as a teacher of Jeremiah.

4. How does Friedman remind the reader that one can only really understand the exile?
(a) by experience of it first hand.
(b) by memorizing Lamentations.
(c) by archeological evidence.
(d) by reading the Psalms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had been a Levite priest of Anathoth and had never done sacrifices?

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

3. What is the third part assumption of the pious fraud?

4. According to the laws of Deuteronomy, where was the central place for sacrifices?

5. Why did writer P not include sacrificial animals in his account of Noah's ark?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how are D and E writers different from J and P authors?

2. How does the work of R leave the door open for why the Bible seems to contradict itself in some places and obviously does in others?

3. Why is identifying the time of writer P of significance?

4. Where does Friedman place the Tabernacle at the time of the First Temple?

5. How did the various versions of the Torah evolve into the one we have today?

6. Why is the period 587-400 B.C. difficult to understand?

7. How does writer P interject his ideas about miracles and the authority of the Aaronid priests?

8. What does Friedman speculate held the Jewish people together, even during the exile?

9. Describe the great irony of the P version of the Torah.

10. What was the brilliant mistake made in regard to discovering the identity of writer P?

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