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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. According to the laws of Deuteronomy, where was the central place for sacrifices?
(a) Shiloh.
(b) Bethlehem.
(c) Horeb.
(d) Jerusalem.

2. In their arguments, how do Graf and others who argue for Author P during the second Temple see the Tabernacle?
(a) as a fabrication to preserve the blueprints of the Temple.
(b) as an unimportant artifact that was left in the desert.
(c) as a device to link Moses with the second Temple.
(d) as a tradition that Moses perpetrated.

3. What does Friedman show about the Tabernacle and the Temple?
(a) there is no direct scaling of one to the other.
(b) there are incredible similarities between them.
(c) they are made of the same materials.
(d) they are in perfect scale one to the other.

4. What supernatural tales are left out by Author P?
(a) tales of God talking directly to Moses.
(b) tales of miracles done in Egypt.
(c) tales of dreams, talking animals and angels.
(d) tales of Aaron's golden calf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did it take hundreds of years for anyone to suspect there was more than one writer involved in the written Torah?

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

3. What had most early scholars scholars considered that J and E had come from?

4. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?

5. How does every book in the Pentateuch begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Friedman react to the idea that the prophets did not know about writer P?

7. During what historical time frame does Friedman place the writer P?

8. 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?

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

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

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