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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 the first law given in Deuteronomy?

2. What does Friedman speculate held the exiled Jews together?

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

4. When did the early scholars consider that Author D wrote?

5. When did Professor Eduard Reuss place Author P?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. Why was a fix necessary for the text of Deuteronomy?

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

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, Why Ezra Could Not Leave Out Certain Passages from the Torah. First (1) define how Ezra had a bias toward the Aaronid priesthood, (2) how he was confronted with writers who disagreed with the centralized location for sacrifices, and (3) then explain how popular familiarity of Bible stories prevented him from simply tossing out writings of those he disagreed with.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten pages on the topic, Comparison of Covenants. Summarize the covenants of (1) Abraham, (2) Moses, and (3) David. Analyze them from the standpoint of equivocation, purpose, and reward. Apply the debate about unconditional covenants from God which was used as an argument against multiple writers of the Torah.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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