Ch10 Test Questions & Answers The End Of The Journey To The

Chapter 10: The End of the Journey to the Promised Land

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. Describe the textual history of the book of Deuteronomy. When was it composed and edited? What figures and events helped to shape it?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. Who are the Levites? How are they portrayed in the book of Deuteronomy? What role did they play in ancient Israel?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. What is the original provenance of Deuteronomy? What evidence supports this provenance? What is the legacy of Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic school on ancient Israelite history and literature?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. Discuss Moses’s death outside the Promised Land. What explanations does the Bible offer for his exclusion from the land? What does the variety of explanations suggest about the theological and historical implications of Israel’s greatest leader not reaching the Promised Land?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. All of the laws that are presented in Deuteronomy appear elsewhere in the Pentateuch.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. Every member of the tribe of Levi is an Israelite priest.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. The laws of Deuteronomy reflect the actual practices of the time of its composition.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. The command to observe the Sabbath in Deuteronomy’s version of the Ten Commandments is motivated by imitation of the divine rest after creation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 05

5. Israel finally enters Canaan at the end of Deuteronomy.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 06

6. The name “Deuteronomy” means “second law” in Greek.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 07

7. The original core of Deuteronomy probably dates to the eighth century bce.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 08

8. In cases of adultery, both Leviticus and Deuteronomy presume the woman to be innocent if the adulterous act occurs “in the open country,” where her cries for help cannot be heard.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 09

9. The origins of Deuteronomy coincide with the decline of the Assyrian empire.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 Question 10

10. The mountain of revelation in Deuteronomy is Horeb, not Sinai.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. All of the following offer farewell addresses except:

a. Joseph

b. Moses

c. Joshua

d. Samuel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. The central core of Deuteronomy is called the:

a. Covenant Code

b. Deuteronomic Code

c. Holiness Code

d. Shema

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. Identifying and tracing the editorial layers underlying written sources is known as:

a. textual criticism

b. source criticism

c. canonical criticism

d. reaction criticism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. All are part of the Deuteronomic Code except:

a. rules for kings

b. elevated status of Levites

c. legislation concerning prophecy

d. curses on the poor

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 05

5. The prophet _______________ may have belonged to the Deuteronomic school.

a. Habakkuk

b. Nahum

c. Ezekiel

d. Jeremiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 06

6. Moses views the Promised Land from Mount:

a. Horeb

b. Sinai

c. Nebo

d. Ebal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 07

7. The curses found in Deuteronomy 28 share several similarities with the treaties of the Assyrian emperor:

a. Sennacherib

b. Esarhaddon

c. Ashurbanipal

d. Hezekiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 08

8. The only place named as a place of worship in Deuteronomy is:

a. Jerusalem

b. Megiddo

c. Shechem

d. Nebo

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 09

9. The king who inaugurated a religious reform in 622 bce was:

a. Hezekiah

b. David

c. Josiah

d. Solomon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 10

10. The oldest passages in Deuteronomy are found in chapter(s):

a. 1–4.43

b. 12–26

c. 5–11

d. 28

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 11

11. All are true of Jeremiah except:

a. his prophetic career began during Josiah’s reign

b. he modeled his reforms on the book of Deuteronomy

c. he may have belonged to the Deuteronomic school

d. he was a northern prophet

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 12

12. In art Moses is often depicted ___________ because of a misreading of Exodus

34.29.

a. with Aaron

b. with horns

c. nude

d. with his staff

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 13

13. The primary difference between Hittite and Assyrian suzerainty treaties is that the

Assyrians treaties do not include:

a. blessings

b. curses

c. divine witnesses

d. a list of stipulations

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 14

14. All are true of the Levites except:

a. they are a tribe of priests

b. they carry the ark of the covenant

c. they are metalsmiths

d. they possess cities of asylum

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 15

15. All are tenets shared by Deuteronomy and Hosea, the eighth-century bce prophet from northern Israel, except:

a. importance of covenant

b. exclusive worship of Yahweh

c. divine love of Israel

d. need for strict adherence to religious and social customs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 16

16. The king responsible for the reform and independence movement of 715–687 bce

was:

a. Josiah

b. Solomon

c. Hezekiah

d. Jeroboam

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 17

17. The Deuteronomic law of the king forbids all of the following except:

a. too many horses

b. excessive gold and silver

c. a large harem

d. the exclusive worship of Yahweh

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 18

18. All suggest a northern origin for Deuteronomy except:

a. Horeb as the mountain of revelation

b. references to Shechem

c. close connections with the Levites

d. the “Blessing of Moses”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 19

19. The only place explicitly identified as a place of Israel’s worship in the book of Deuteronomy is:

a. Jerusalem

b. Shechem

c. Shiloh

d. Samaria

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 20

20. All are shared features of both D and E except:

a. the relatively elevated status of the Levites

b. an interest in prophecy

c. the use of Horeb instead of Sinai

d. a likely northern provenance

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. The Hebrew word shema means________________.

a. hear

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. Another name for the Pentateuch is______________.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. The Hebrew name for Deuteronomy is_________________.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. The “holy war” in Deuteronomy called for a ban on _________________ and ___________________.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 05

5. The book of Deuteronomy contains a third version of the __________________.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 06

6. The “law of the king” appears to critique the line of kings belonging to the dynasty established by _________________.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 07

7. The ________________ is a set of laws found in Deuteronomy 12-26.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 08

8. The __________________ continued to revise the book of Deuteronomy in light of Israel’s changing political circumstances and was also responsible for editing the oracles of several prophets.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 09

9. Assyria was at the height of its powers under King________________.

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Title: Chapter 10 Question 10

10. Moses died at the __________________ of Yahweh.

a. command or mouth