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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 J and E.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information comes from knowing who wrote the Bible and when it was written?
(a) how the languages have changed over the years.
(b) what the text meant in the Biblical world itself.
(c) whether the text is authentic or not.
(d) only what the text means to us today.

2. Why did the idea that there were four authors of the Pentateuch meet with resistance among Christians and Jews?
(a) the idea was thought to be the work of the Devil.
(b) the idea was too complicated to understand.
(c) the idea was suspected of trying to undermine the Bible.
(d) the idea was too much of a change from traditional thinking.

3. What does the Author J's story of Noah do that the Author E's story does not?
(a) it allows God to have regrets.
(b) it shows God as an abstract idea.
(c) it gives God a greater purpose for the flood.
(d) it makes God more human.

4. Why did Author E get his designation?
(a) he refers to God as Edom.
(b) he always refers to God, El, or Elohim.
(c) his fist name was Elgar.
(d) he never uses the singular for God.

5. What was different after David died and his son became King?
(a) Solomon held elections among the tribes.
(b) Solomon became a greater conqueror.
(c) Solomon was peaceful, not going to war like David.
(d) Solomon moved the capital to Beersheba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the traditional belief about the authorship of the first five books of the Bible?

2. What were the cherubs inside the Holy of Holies?

3. Why was the pressure to unite under a King?

4. With all the people who have read and studied the Bible, what is one thing few of them know?

5. By the end of the 19th Century what name does the four author idea take on?

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