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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the first books that suggested the traditional ideas about who wrote the Bible were wrong?
(a) the books were placed in all libraries.
(b) the books became best sellers.
(c) the books were banned or burned.
(d) the books became required reading for clergy.

2. What is significant in the Ten Commandments story Author E writes?
(a) Moses is never mentioned.
(b) Moses defers to Aaron's advice.
(c) Aaron is the one who gets the stone tablets.
(d) Aaron plays a significant role.

3. What is Friedman's conclusion regarding Author E?
(a) that he is an Israelite Levite.
(b) that he is related to Jeroboam.
(c) that E is a woman.
(d) that E copied Author J's writings.

4. What unusual speculation does Friedman make regarding the Egyptian bondage?
(a) that only the tribe of Levi may have been enslaved.
(b) that they were not enslaved so much as over taxed.
(c) that Moses did not really lead them out of Egypt.
(d) that the tribe of Levi was left out of the slavery.

5. What do scholars call two different versions of the same story?
(a) a contradiction.
(b) a puzzle.
(c) a doublet.
(d) a repetition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can J and E not be separated on the basis of style alone?

2. What story does Friedman use to illustrate the two author concept?

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

4. What is seen in the Author J story of Jacob's blessing of his sons and grandsons?

5. Oddly enough, where do the Judeans flee when under attack by Assyria and Babylonia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tie in between the Golden Calf idol made at the foot of mount Sinai and the images of the cherubim in both the northern and southern regions?

2. What made it evident that there were two different writers identified as Author J who became identified as Author E?

3. What do scholars use to determine the different writers?

4. How does the story of Moses smashing the tablets of stone tend to discredit the southern kingdom of Judah?

5. What is compelling evidence from modern scholarship that there were multiple writers of the Bible?

6. How long after the initial evidence of multiple writers of the Bible were discovered did it become clear that two more writers were also involved?

7. What does the phrase "to this day" suggest in the book of Deuteronomy?

8. What are some of the measures David undertook to unite the twelve tribes after he became King?

9. Discuss the pendulum swing of Jewish religion after King Josiah, Hezekiah's great grandson, came to power.

10. Describe the locations where the Bible was produced, the lifestyle of the people, and the methods used for writing.

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