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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 was different about the religion of the Jews and those of other nations?
(a) its popularity.
(b) its dogmatism.
(c) its monotheism.
(d) its longevity.

2. What is an argument against the time of the second Temple for author P?
(a) he talks exclusively about the first Temple.
(b) he never mentions the Tabernacle.
(c) he never mentions the Temple as having any importance.
(d) he never writes about the worship in the Temple.

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

4. What does Friedman speculate held the exiled Jews together?
(a) the nature of the Jewish religion.
(b) the resistance they put up.
(c) the smuggled copies of the Torah.
(d) the blood relationship among them.

5. Who is most likely the redactor for the entire Pentateuch?
(a) Hezekiah.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) Samuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes into exile with Jeremiah?

2. What supernatural tales are left out by Author P?

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

4. What is Freidman's analogy to the problem of the fall of Judah?

5. What does Friedman suggest gives a clue as to the identity of the writer D?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe clues to who wrote Deuteronomy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is problematic about the mistake in locating writer P in history?

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