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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 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this change in the writing affect the Davidic Covenant?

2. How does every book in the Pentateuch begin?

3. Why is it significant for some to trace their priestly ancestry back to Aaron?

4. What happened after the fall of the kingdom of Israel?

5. Who writes his book in much the same way that Deuteronomy had been written?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is King Josiah eliminated as a possible writer of Deuteronomy?

2. How does Friedman identify as writer R, the redactor who stitched together all the various versions into one Torah?

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

4. How was responsibility for the eventual exile of the people defined in the later text?

5. At what point does the original draft of Deuteronomy stop making sense?

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

7. Describe clues to who wrote Deuteronomy.

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

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

10. Why was a fix necessary for the text of Deuteronomy?

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