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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 Author P's interpretation of God?
2. What was different about the religion of the Jews and those of other nations?
3. When did the early scholars consider that Author D wrote?
4. What does Friedman say about Jeremiah's familiarity with Author P before the exile?
5. Who writes his book in much the same way that Deuteronomy had been written?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was responsibility for the eventual exile of the people defined in the later text?
2. At what point does the original draft of Deuteronomy stop making sense?
3. How does Friedman identify as writer R, the redactor who stitched together all the various versions into one Torah?
4. How does Friedman react to the idea that the prophets did not know about writer P?
5. How is King Josiah eliminated as a possible writer of Deuteronomy?
6. Explain how are D and E writers different from J and P authors?
7. During what historical time frame does Friedman place the writer P?
8. How does the importance of sacrificing becomes apparent?
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. What does Friedman speculate held the Jewish people together, even during the exile?
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, Different Ways of Looking at the Bible. In your essay discuss the Bible as (1) literature, (2) history, and (3) a sacred text. Give examples of each.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten pages on the topic,
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten pages on the topic, A Critique of Friedman's WHO WROTE THE BIBLE. In this piece, write your opinion of the work, the amount of scholarship that went into it, the ease or difficulty of reading it, and whether you would recommend the book to others, and why.
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