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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. Who goes into exile with Jeremiah?
(a) Baruch.
(b) Miriam.
(c) the High Priest.
(d) Ezra.

2. What does the revision to Deuteronomy explain?
(a) the reason the Davidic Covenant would be broken.
(b) the reason for the exile much later.
(c) the signs to look for before the exile.
(d) the places where the law can be found.

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

4. Where do the authors D and E write that Moses received the Ten Commandments?
(a) Mt. Sinai.
(b) Mt. Horeb.
(c) Mt. Olives.
(d) Mt. Zion.

5. With what did Ezra return to Judah?
(a) a new revelation from God.
(b) a copy of the Torah that is in modern usage.
(c) an army of 10,000 men.
(d) a blueprint of the Temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does every book in the Pentateuch begin?

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

3. What goes against the First Commandment?

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

5. Why does Friedman hold early Biblical scholars in high esteem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Cyrus the Great figure into the history of the Jewish exile?

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

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

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

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

9. How does the importance of sacrificing becomes apparent?

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

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