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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. Who was Noadiah?

2. What sin did Solomon's wives influence him to commit?

3. What name has traditionally been given to Pilate's wife?

4. How did the woman with the issue of blood fare after all of her physicians and medicines?

5. What did Jesus say made the woman with the issue of blood whole?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Christ usually heal people, and what was different about the way he healed the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter?

2. What does the fact that so many of the women mentioned in the Bible were never named indicate about the role of women in ancient Hebrew society?

3. Who was Ahinoam?

4. What ailment did the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter have, and why did Christ initially rebuff her request to heal her daughter?

5. How did Naomi help her widowed daughter-in-law get a new husband?

6. Who was Keturah?

7. From what affliction did Christ heal Mary Magdalene, and what other possible explanation does Edith Deen say commentators have given for this affliction?

8. What message did the angel Gabriel give Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth, and what happened to Zacharias when he didn't believe the angel's message?

9. What did the wise woman of Tekoah influence King David to do?

10. What request did Salome, the mother of James and John, make of Christ, and what surprising answer did Christ give her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Eve and Mary, the mother of Christ, as archetypes for motherhood. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of women in the early church. Were women allowed to preach or teach, or was their role a supportive one? Were women in the New Testament allowed a greater leadership role than women during the Old Testament era were? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the depiction of women as temptresses or corrupters of men in the Bible using Eve, Potiphar's wife, and Delilah as examples.

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