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

2. Why is it significant for some to trace their priestly ancestry back to Aaron?
(a) he was given the Ten Commandments.
(b) he was a goldsmith as well as a priest.
(c) he was the first Jewish High Priest.
(d) he was more important than Moses.

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

4. Why does Baruch Halpern eliminate the possibility that a king had written Deuteronomy?
(a) it lacks the authority of a king.
(b) it has restrictions a king would not put upon himself.
(c) it has the language of common people.
(d) it vows there will never be a king in Israel.

5. What does the revised text make clear about the exile?
(a) it could be avoided if Judah and Israel re-combine.
(b) it is not a punishment.
(c) it is an inevitable result for a small kingdom.
(d) it is not a destruction of the covenant of Moses.

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

3. What is the great irony of P's writing that favored the Aaronid priesthood?

4. Where do the authors D and E write that Moses received the Ten Commandments?

5. Which King of Judah is given credit for leading the people to worship false gods?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Friedman finally identify Jeremiah as the author of Deuteronomy?

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

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

8. Who accompanied Jeremiah into exile in Egypt and how did that affect the texts?

9. Describe clues to who wrote Deuteronomy.

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

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