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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. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?

2. Heschel describes God as what?

3. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?

4. Heschel contrasts God to other deities, who unlike God, did not have what?

5. What appears to us as wild emotionalism in the prophets, Heschel says may seem like what to the prophets themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is anthropopathy?

2. What is the purpose of ecstasy, as explained by Heschel?

3. How does Heschel describe God?

4. How does Heschel describe Tao as an antithesis to the prophetic idea of God?

5. How does Heschel think much of the Bible should be looked at?

6. Does Heschel say God always been considered a loving and good God?

7. What is ecstasy?

8. Describe one theory that Heschel discusses regarding prophets and their revelations from God.

9. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?

10. What is one difference between apathy and pathos, as explained by Heschel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss ecstasy and its relation to prophecy. Include a definition of ecstasy, Heschel's view and at least two other viewpoints. *

Essay Topic 2

How does Heschel explain God's wrath? How does he answer the objection of those who find it hard to understand how a righteous God can be angry? Is there a difference between anger and wrath, in terms of humans, and/or in terms of God? Should humans look at natural disasters as the wrath of God or as the power of God?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss nonfiction. Distinguish it from fiction. In your discussion include genres of nonfiction, their purposes, what types were used in this book, were they used well, etc.

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