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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) Horeb.
(b) Shiloh.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Bethlehem.

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

3. Why did it take hundreds of years for anyone to suspect there was more than one writer involved in the written Torah?
(a) because no one studied it carefully.
(b) because no one thought to questions the contradictions.
(c) because the combination was done so artfully.
(d) because there was no archelogical evidence.

4. Which King of Judah is given credit for leading the people to worship false gods?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) King Reoboham.
(c) King Manasseh.
(d) King Josiah.

5. To whom does Deuteronomy give jurisdiction in legal matters?
(a) Jacobites.
(b) kings.
(c) Levites.
(d) descendants of Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where do the priests of the northern kingdom trace their ancestry?

2. What artifact ceases to be mentioned in Jewish history at the time of the return?

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

4. What does the revision to Deuteronomy explain?

5. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the importance of sacrificing becomes apparent?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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