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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. 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.

2. Primarily, what is Deuteronomy mostly about?
(a) laws.
(b) praise.
(c) science.
(d) history.

3. What do Henning Bernhard Witter, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn have in common?
(a) they were all burned at the stake for heresy.
(b) they concluded the two author idea about the same time.
(c) they all disclaimed the two author idea.
(d) they all came from Germany.

4. What are the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy commonly called by Christians?
(a) the Torah.
(b) the Ten Commandments.
(c) the Prophets.
(d) the Pentateuch.

5. What supernatural tales are left out by Author P?
(a) tales of dreams, talking animals and angels.
(b) tales of miracles done in Egypt.
(c) tales of God talking directly to Moses.
(d) tales of Aaron's golden calf.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the tribes of Israel conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.?

3. Why is it significant for some to trace their priestly ancestry back to Aaron?

4. What is Author P's interpretation of God?

5. What did Isaac ibn Yashush notice in the eleventh century about the list of kings in Genesis 36?

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