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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. Which statement is true based on the traditional interpretation of the Book of Job?

2. Of what is "the earth shall be full of knowledge of the Lord/as the waters cover the sea" a description?

3. Why does Haman want the Jews annihilated?

4. To what does the author compare a man who has thrown out his whoring wife, then, after she is gone, realizes he loves her no matter the mistakes she has made?

5. What have skeptics found in the Book of Job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are God and Israel brought back together in the Book of Daniel?

2. What proof is there that Job silences God?

3. What are the four things Job does, according to the common interpretation of the Book of Job?

4. Why is cultic sacrifice a late development in the Judean culture?

5. With whom does Haggai deal?

6. Prior to Second Isaiah does God feel joy? Explain.

7. How is the love between the man and wife before and after the reconciliation?

8. Why are Job's speeches NOT subversive?

9. What happen after Ezra reads the "scroll of the Teaching of Moses?"

10. Why is it confusing that the prophets contradict one another?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Miles says it is revolutionary for God to become the "God of Abraham."

Part 1) Why is this revolutionary?

Part 2) What is God and Abraham's relationship like?

Part 3) What is the importance of Abraham's family?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of the Book of Leviticus? How did the book get its name? What do the procedures described in Leviticus do to God?

Essay Topic 3

When does God realize He is responsible for Israel's social order? What six-part action leads to this discovery? What are the four crescendos that affect the emerging character of God?

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