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

2. What does Friedman suggest is the only good news about the exile?
(a) that it educated the brightest young people.
(b) that they missed a famine in Israel.
(c) that it only lasted fifty years.
(d) that the Jews became wealthy in Babylon and Egypt.

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 the combination was done so artfully.
(c) because there was no archelogical evidence.
(d) because no one thought to questions the contradictions.

4. What occurred during the reign of King Hezekiah?
(a) centralization of religion.
(b) elevation of Mosaic priests.
(c) a return to paganism.
(d) appointment of scarificial places.

5. What did Ezra claim about his copy of the Torah?
(a) it was a new revelation from God.
(b) it was completely written by Moses.
(c) it was the work of his own hand.
(d) it was incomplete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the accounts of writers J, E, and P?

2. How do Graf and others see the Tabernacle?

3. According to Friedman's theory, when does that place Author P in time?

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

5. Which group of priests do the writers J and P favor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the brilliant mistake made in regard to discovering the identity of writer P?

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

6. Describe clues to who wrote Deuteronomy.

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

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

9. 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?

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

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