Quiz

Match each name with the description of the interpretive strategy used by modern critical scholars to study the Pentateuch.

Match the name of each document with its description, according to the hypothesis of Julius Wellhausen.

Match the name of each evangelical interpretive strategies for studying the Pentateuch with its description.

Which of the following are views of modern critical scholars regarding the mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch? Mark each correct answer.

What has been the attitude of many, if not all, modern critical scholars regarding the authority and inspiration of the Pentateuch?

What argument is presented in the lesson to show that we can still trust the Pentateuch to represent what Moses himself wrote, even though it may have gone through a process of updating after Moses?

Explain the evangelical position regarding the authorship of the Pentateuch.

What evidence do the modern critical scholars give to defend their view of the authorship and composition of the Pentateuch? Mark each correct answer.

Many modern critical scholars proposed that Israel’s prehistoric ancestors embraced tribal animism, and that the patriarchs moved toward ________.

According to many modern critical scholars, what religious view characterized the tribes of Israel during the time of Moses?

Which of the following schools of thought is a key presupposition of modern critical scholars?

What term is used for the belief that if spiritual realities exist at all, they have no discernible effect on the visible world, and they have no place in academic research?

What term is used for the belief that the best way to understand any subject is to understand how it developed over time through natural causes?

In the early nineteenth century, among critical scholars, which of the following was a common way of explaining the historical development of religions?

What is henotheism?

How does the lesson define evangelicals?

What is an amanuense?

Which of the following languages did Moses probably know? Mark each correct answer.

Recent research strongly suggests that Moses wrote in a language that scholars have called ____________, a language closely related to Canaanite dialects.

Which interpretive strategy will be the emphasis of the lessons of this course?

Which of the following school of thought is a key presupposition of evangelicals?

What is the evangelical view of how Israel’s faith developed?

In Luke 24:44, Jesus says, Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of ______, the Prophets and the Psalms.

Chronicles says, Amaziah acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the _________.

Which of the following best explains the evangelical perspective of the process probably used by Moses to write the Pentateuch?

Most modern critical scholars believe that the Pentateuch was composed in the days of Moses.

Naturalism led critical scholars to assert that Pentateuch contains all kinds of errors, contradictions and even intentional misrepresentations of history and false theology, like all other merely human writings.

According to the lesson, the Old Testament reflects the development from a less sophisticated form of religion to a more sophisticated form.

Evangelical scholars agree that Moses probably used other sources to write the Pentateuch, such as oral traditions and independent documents.

Evangelical scholars agree that the Pentateuch went through some slight editorial updating after the days of Moses, including the account of his death and the updating of the language.