The snake in the Garden of Eden is most accurately...

Various things according to different religious interpreters

Ancient Jewish interpreters believed Torah was all of these EXCEPT

Had one correct understanding/interpretation

An answer to the 'problem of evil'

The Book of Job is all of the following EXCEPT

A book about Israelite tribal politics

Imaginative readings of Bible stories

A tradition's authoratative books

The Talmud contains all BUT...

A clean and definitive list of laws and customs

Torah is all of these things BUT...

Imaginative readings of Bible stories

Spinoza holds all of the following EXCEPT

The Bible has a Supernatural origin

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1
Zipporah does all of the following EXCEPT
Circumcise Moses
Save her son from God
Circumcise her son
Save Moses from God
2
Which is NOT a term for the Israelite God?
Elohim
Baal
YHVH
Jehovah
3
The snake in the Garden of Eden is most accurately...
Jesus, freeing humanity from the evil God
A talking snake
Satan, there to tempt humanity into sin
Various things according to different religious interpreters
4
Ancient Jewish interpreters believed Torah was all of these EXCEPT
Relevant for all times
Contains hidden meanings
Had one correct understanding/interpretation
Divine
5
The oldest Gospel, we think, is...
Matthew
Luke
John
Mark
6
Theodicy is...
A definitive set of laws
An answer to the 'problem of evil'
Speculation about Origins
Speculation about the End Times
7
YHVH is also called...
The Dybbuk
Tetragrammaton
Apocrapha
Pentateuch
8
Gospel of Mark is the earliest material on Jesus in the NT
False
True
9
'Gospel' just means...
Raw Truth
Stories about Jesus
Good News
Mysteries Revealed
10
Redaction means...
To Creatively Translate
To Faithfully Interpret
To Will to Believe
To Finalize an Edit
11
The Book of Job is all of the following EXCEPT
Wisdom Literature
Part of the division Ketuvim
A book about Israelite tribal politics
A meditation on theodicy
12
Midrash is...
Part of the misc. writings in TaNaK
The elaboration of Bible laws
Prophetic injunctions
Imaginative readings of Bible stories
13
Which one is NOT the same thing?
TaNaK
New Testament
Old Testament
Hebrew Bible
14
Henotheism means...
My God can eat your God!
Only one God exists!
No god exists!
Many gods exist!
15
"Canon" means...
Books that are not really important
Only the first few books of a collection
Method of interpretation
A tradition's authoratative books
16
Reception history means...
How Biblical material has secret meanings
How Biblical material was composed
How Biblical material refers to itself
How Biblical material was used
17
The Talmud contains all BUT...
Legal materials--proposals, debates, elaborations
Rabbinic sayings, debates, and speculations
A clean and definitive list of laws and customs
Various stories about Bible figures, Rabbis, and others
18
Christian Scriptures have all of these 'genres' except...
Epistolary materials
Detective Fiction
Gospels
Apocalyptic materials
19
Torah is all of these things BUT...
Generic word for teaching/revelation
Imaginative readings of Bible stories
The First Five Books of Moses
Given on Mt. Sinai
20
Hermeneutics is...
Method of interpretation
Harmonizing contradictory verses
Philosophical readings of Bible
The art of translation into other languages
21
Spinoza holds all of the following EXCEPT
The Bible has a Supernatural origin
The Bible contains some simple universal truths
Analyze the Bible using same methods to examine nature
Moses' governance is a model for modern politics

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