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Old Testament Test 2
Four writers J E D P and Pentateuch
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
07/19/2010

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Anthropomorphic
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attributing human characteristics to God
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Behistun Rock
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Trilingual inscription containing Akkadian
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Divination
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Fortelling the future
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Sargon II
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Assyrian King ca 722
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Casuistic Law
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Style of most AnE law codes
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Cuneiform
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"wedge writing"
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vulgate
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latin bible
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Habiru
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Semitic outlaws mentioned in

Mari Letters

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Stratigraphy
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layers of tels
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W F Albright
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Escavator of Debir
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Masada
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Mountain sight of Jewish defiance
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Shemesh
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Babylonian Sun god
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Nuzi Text
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Social/Religious customs
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Rosetta Stone
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Hieroglyphics
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J Wellhausen
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Documentary Hypothesis
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Codex Aleppo
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10th C.E. MT
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K. Kenyon
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Escavator of Jericho
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Qumran
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Essene site
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Merneptah
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Pharoah first recognized Israel as a "people"
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Judas Maccabeus
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Hannakuh
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The Israeli archeologist responsible for escavating Masada
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Y Yadin
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The recently discovered extra biblical textes, providing valuable information about the political situation and personal names in Northern Syria about 1800 BCE were found at
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Mari
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The most important contribution of the Hurrians to our understanding of the OT
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Nuzi Text
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In the OT the United Monarchy is usually identified as
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Israel
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In the long and complex history of the Canaanites the site where predominately religious/mythological texts were escavated was
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Ugarit
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In 722/1 the Northern Kingdom was conquered by the
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Assyrians
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Each of the following Sumerian Kings compiled Law Codes except
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Gilgamesh

(the ones that do are Lipit-Ishtar, Eshnunna, Ur-nammu)

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All of the following books belong to the Writings except
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Ezekiel

(Psalm, Daniel, Job)

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Each of the following documents constitutes a 4/5th century CE MSS of LXX except
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Leningrad

(Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Sinaiticus)

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Questions about genre and social settings would be important to students using
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form criticism
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Most of the books in the Pentateuch had been compiled and recognized as canon by
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shortly after P
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The Neo-Babylonian exile of the Jews lasted approximately
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50 years
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The period of the United Monarchy dates to
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1020 - 925 BCE
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The proper chronological sequence of the Pentateuchal source strata is
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JEDP
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The principle site for the Copper processing industry in S/P dating to around 3500 BC was located at
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Ghassul
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The Persian religion that had the most impact on post exilic Israelite religion was
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Zoroastrianism
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In Egyptian history the Golden Age of literature dates to what period
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Middle Kingdom
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The Egyptian Sun god honored by Amenophis IV was
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Aten
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According to Albright the patriarch dated to which archeological period
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Middle Bronze Age
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The Sumerian King who established the empire of Akkad was
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Sargon I
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The end of a national state ruled by Jews for Jews occurred in
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587/6 BCE
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All of the following empires rose and fell during the second millenium except
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Ebla
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A form critical analysis of an old testament book ask all of the following questions except
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text

(ask for genre, setting, structure)

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The political situation in Canaan as described in the Mari Letters was
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Chaotic
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The Hittites were contemporary with the First dynasty of Babylon
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True
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Solomon dates to 950 BCE
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True
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Copper was not a major item of cultural importance until the Chalcolithic Period
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True
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W F Albright concluded that Jericho was only a small village in the 13th century when Joshua conqured the city
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False
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The term diaspora refers to the immagration of the hebrews into Egypt in the 18th century BCE
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False
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Due to numerous dissimilarities the Dead Sea scrolls offer major alternatives to the textual traditions of MT 
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False
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Ubaidaya was a major site in S/P during the Paleolithic Age
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True
Term
Zoroaster was the founder of Islam
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False
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Cyrus the Great and Darius were both important important Kings
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True
Term
The Hebrew canon includes the Apocrypha
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false
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Sumaria was a capital of the Northern Kingdom
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True
Term
In Egyptian history the age of Amarna is the 14th century
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true
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The earliest complete skeletal remains in the AnE were found at Mt Carmel and at Jericho
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True
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The genre of Law exemplified in Hammurabi's law code is also found in the OT
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True
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The section of the Hebrew Canon that traces the history of Israel from settlement to exile is known as the Latter Prophets
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False
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Israel's first king was Saul
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True
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In the history of ancient Egypt, the period corresponding to the Middle Assyrian Empire was called the New Kingdom
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True
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The term Hyksos refers not to an ethnic class but a socialogical class of wanderer or outsiders
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False
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Antiochus IV epiphanes was generally regarded as being anti-Semetic
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True
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Divine retrobution is one of the primary theological assumptions of the OT conception of God
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True
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Nabopolassor was an Assyrian King
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False
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The Persians were defeated by the Assyrians at the Battle of Megiddo.
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False
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The concept of history in most books of the OT is linear and revelatory
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True
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The critical event in Israels theological history was the Exodus in 587
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False
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Yah was the name of a Canaanite god
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True
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A 6th century leader of the returning Jews from exile was Zerubabel
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True
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Ezra was a major jewish religious leader during the 5th century BCE
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True
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The Jewish exile was ended in 538 BCE when the Neo-Babylonians were conquered by the Egyptians
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False
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Cheops is the name of a Hurrian city from which the Hyksos came
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False
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Devination refers to the ancient practice of fotrelling the future by various means
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true
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