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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is seen in the Author E story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?
2. What are the tribes of Israel conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.?
3. What is a salt lake and named so because the salt content is too high to support life other than microbes?
4. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
5. What did Isaac ibn Yashush notice in the eleventh century about the list of kings in Genesis 36?
Short Essay Questions
1. What method does Friedman use to determine the identity of Author E?
2. What made it evident that there were two different writers identified as Author J who became identified as Author E?
3. After placing the date of the writing of Deuteronomy as around 622 B.C., what becomes Friedman's next task?
4. How did Hezekiah's son and grandson alter the reforms he had made?
5. How did King Jeroboam solidify his position after the kingdoms split into norther and southern kingdoms?
6. What evidence is there that Author J might have been female?
7. What is the difference in the accounts of J and E regarding the Ark of the Covenant?
8. When was it discovered that at least two people authored parts of the Bible?
9. What are some of the measures David undertook to unite the twelve tribes after he became King?
10. What is different about the God of the Hebrews?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay of at least two typewritten pages on the topic, The Great Kings of the Israelites. Using the characters of David, Solomon, Hezekiah, and Josiah, detail each in terms of (1) wealth and power, (2) relationship to God, and (3) personal strengths and weaknesses.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten pages on the topic, How Friedman's Book Changed My Ideas About the Bible. First, (1) explain your mind set about the Bible before reading Friedman's book, then (2) discuss the great lengths scholars such as Friedman have gone to in discovering the existence of various writers, and finally, (3) discuss whether the evidence presented seems plausible to you and whether it altered your interpretation of the Bible in any way.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten pages on the topic,
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