Ch4 Complete Test Bank The Formation Of The Pentateuch And

Chapter 4: The Formation of the Pentateuch and the Primeval History

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

1. Describe Wellhausen’s work on the Documentary Hypothesis. What are the its benefits and limits? What aspects of his work continue to be influential, and what components are faulty?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

2. What is the curse of Ham? What is its basis in the biblical text? How has this text been used by later interpreters?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

3. After reading the biblical Flood stories and pertinent sections of other Near Eastern Flood myths, what similarities do you identify? In what ways are these related sources valuable for the study of the biblical Flood narratives?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 04

4. The genealogies in Genesis 4–11 are complicated and highly debated by scholars. What significant differences do you see between the J genealogies in Genesis 4 and 10.8–19 and the P genealogies in Genesis 5, 10.1–7, and 11.10–26? What differing purposes do these genealogies have? How are their style and language different? Where do they seem to contradict each other? How can you explain these themes?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

1. A branching or segmented genealogy traces descendants in a direct line from father to firstborn son to his firstborn son and so on.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

2. Genesis 4–11 is made up of three separate sources.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

3. Wellhausen formulated the Documentary Hypothesis.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 04

4. J and E were never independent sources.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 05

5. The D and E sources may have originated in the northern kingdom of Israel.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 06

6. Most scholars believe that P predates J.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 07

7. Much of the early work conducted using source criticism occurred in Germany.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 08

8. In Genesis, Noah was the first human to plant a vineyard.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 09

9. In the P source, the Flood is caused by rain.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10. The original basis for separating various strands or documents in the Pentateuch was the different names used for God.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

1. The view of Moses as the traditional author of the Pentateuch remain unchallenged until the ____________ century CE.

a. first

b. tenth

c. seventeenth

d. eighteenth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

2. All are Noah’s sons except:

a. Ham

b. Canaan

c. Shem

d. Japheth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

3. All are names for God in the Old Testament except:

a. Yahweh

b. elohim

c. Rahab

d. el shadday

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

4. All of the following are true of the E source except:

a. fragmentary

b. use of elohim

c. affinities with D

d. composed in the south

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 05

5. All of the following are characteristic of the P source except:

a. vivid anthropomorphisms

b. stress on religious observance

c. genealogies

d. use of elohim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 06

6. Abel’s offering to God consisted of:

a. gold

b. first fruits

c. first of his flock

d. nothing

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 07

7. The “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis 6.1-4 appear elsewhere in the Bible as all of the following except:

a. Nephilim

b. giants

c. members of the divine council

d. Anakim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 08

8. Horeb is the mountain of revelation in:

a. D and E

b. J and P

c. J and E

d. D and P

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 09

9. The final editor of the existing sources was:

a. J

b. E

c. D

d. P

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10. The tower of Babel likely represented a:

a. necropolis

b. ziggurat

c. military fortress

d. pyramid

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 11

11. The man who does not die but simply is “no more” is:

a. Enoch

b. Enosh

c. Adam

d. Lamech

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 12

12. ­­­­­­­The __________________ is an ancient parallel to the diminishing length of the extraordinary life spans of primeval humans found in Genesis.

a. Atrahasis

b. Epic of Gilgamesh

c. table of nations

d. Sumerian King List

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 13

13. All of the following have been proposed as additional sources to the Pentateuch

except:

a. Lay

b. Quelle

c. Seir

d. Kenite

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 14

14. The D source appears to share some connections with:

a. P

b. E

c. Quelle

d. J

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 15

15. The source that has lengthy descriptions of priestly vestments and sacred

architecture and objects is:

a. P

b. E

c. D

d. J

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 16

16. The account of the Flood in the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic is told by:

a. Utnapishtim

b. Enkidu

c. Atrahasis

d. Ziusudra

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 17

17. Terah is the father of:

a. Sarai

b. Methuselah

c. Lot

d. Abram

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 18

18. All include a Flood narrative except:

a. Enuma Elish

b. Gilgamesh

c. Genesis

d. Atrahasis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 19

19. The specific cause of the Flood in Genesis is:

a. noise

b. Noah

c. eating the forbidden fruit

d. human wickedness

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 20

20. The composite genealogy of Noah’s descendants in Genesis 10, arranged by

families, languages, and lands, is called:

a. segmented genealogy

b. table of nations

c. linear genealogy

d. etiology

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

1. Passages that are variant treatments of the same subject within a text are called______________.

a. doublets

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

2. Adam and Eve’s third son is named________________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

3. The word “Pentateuch” is Greek for__________________.

a. five works or five books

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 04

4.The first human is called adam because he is taken from the adamah, the Hebrew word for “­­­­___________________.”

a. soil

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 05

5. _____________________ first identified two different sources in Geneses, one of which referred to the deity as elohim, translated “God,” and the other as yahweh, translated “the Lord.”

a. Jean Astruc

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 06

6. The dominant southern tribe in ancient Israel was___________________.

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 07

7. The _______________________ narrative provides an explanation for the multiplicity of languages.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 04 Question 08

8. An explanation of a phenomenon is also called a(n)_________________.

a. etiology

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 09

9. In Genesis the mythological heroes of divine and human parentage are called the _______________.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10. The first metalsmith was a descendant of ___________________.