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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 - 11 The Sacred Tent, P.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of the 19th Century what name does the four author idea take on?
(a) the Quadra Hypothesis.
(b) the Documentary Hypothesis
(c) the Four Horsemen.
(d) the Fourth Dimension.

2. What effect did the first suggestions that more than one writer wrote the Pentateuch have on Christian clergy?
(a) they rejected the idea.
(b) they agreed with the new scholarship.
(c) they believed they were answering questions.
(d) they thought it explained a lot about scripture.

3. What does Friedman show about the Tabernacle and the Temple?
(a) they are in perfect scale one to the other.
(b) they are made of the same materials.
(c) there are incredible similarities between them.
(d) there is no direct scaling of one to the other.

4. Why did Frank Moore Cross, a biblical scholar at Harvard University, argue against looking for an author of Deuteronomy after 587 B.C.?
(a) the phrase "to this day" is often employed in the text.
(b) one Israelite kingdom no longer existed.
(c) there are no scrolls after 587 B.C.
(d) the language of Deuteronomy predates 587 B.C.

5. What is the third part assumption of the pious fraud?
(a) that religion was centralized.
(b) that religion was uniform in two kingdoms.
(c) that religion was still being conceived.
(d) that religion was exclusive to Judah.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Friedman build the case that Author E favored Israel and was, in fact, from Israel, probably the city of Shiloh?

2. What happened to the snake sculpture that Moses had built in the wilderness?

3. What does the revision to Deuteronomy explain?

4. How does it appear that doublets have been treated to form the Bible?

5. According to Friedman's theory, when does that place Author P in time?

(see the answer key)

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