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

2. What was the political structure for the Israelites?
(a) they lived under a king.
(b) they consisted of twelve tribes.
(c) they had a tribunal.
(d) they were anarchists.

3. What is the common mispronunciation of the name, Yahweh?
(a) Jehovah.
(b) Eloi.
(c) Yawheh.
(d) Wayhey.

4. What lay in the ark under the wings of the cherubs?
(a) a lampstand with seven candles.
(b) the original stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
(c) a tree that symbolized Yahweh.
(d) the original copies of the Torah.

5. Why are tribal references important in discovering the different authors?
(a) they certify the two authors' reliability.
(b) they read like the political divisions after King Solomon.
(c) they show which tribes each of the authors comes from.
(d) they indicate great knowledge of Hebrew history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?

3. Where does Author J place Abraham in the story of genesis?

4. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?

5. What was clever about moving the capital from Judah to Jerusalem?

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