Quiz 018

Episode 18 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 18: The 613 Commandments. See what you can recall about the Pentateuch’s many commandments and proscriptions by clicking START below!

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Which of Wellhausen’s four sources is identified as being responsible for the regulations in Leviticus?

The P- or Priestly source.

The D- or Deuteronomist.

The E- or Elohist.

The J- or Yahwist.

A composite of all four sources.

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Biblical scholars have associated the “J” and “E” sources as having geographical interests in championing which two territories?

J : Judah; "E" : Israel

J : Jericho; "E" : Edrei

J : Mesopotamia; "E" : Edom

J : Aram-Damascus; "E" : Egypt

J : Yarkon; "E" : Ekron

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By chapter count, about how much of the Pentateuch consists of commandments and prescriptive materials, rather than narrative about the Israelites’ earliest ancestors?

50%

15%

10%

90%

85%

4 / 10

The “eye for eye” and “tooth for tooth” mandates in Exodus are:

Entirely original to the Old Testament.

Identical to the legalistic rules in Book 2 of the Iliad.

Likely a later insert, placed into Exodus some time in the 400s CE.

Borrowed word for word from the law codes of Dilmun.

Probably adapted from Mesopotamian law codes like Hammurabi's.

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In Julius Wellhausen’s theory, the “J” and “E” sources of the Pentateuch, woven into many of the “doublet” episodes, get their names from:

The tribes of Judah and Ephraim.

The signatories that follow certain passages in ancient manuscripts.

The territories around Jericho and Edrei.

The different names for the Old Testament god that they use.

Passages written in Aramaic and passages written in Hebrew.

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The bulk of Leviticus is concerned with which two things?

Correct preparation for battle and tabernacle construction.

Construction of the Second Temple and negotiations with Persian tax agents.

Animal sacrifice and ritual cleanliness.

Relations between unmarried women and correct care of holy idols.

Horticulture and home construction.

7 / 10

Which is included in the first of the ten commandments in the Book of Exodus?

“I the LORD your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me.”

Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.”

If your offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, you shall choose your offering from turtledoves or pigeons. The priests shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head.

All fat is the LORD’s.

If [a man] breaks a bone of another, then his bone is to be broken. . .If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.

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Exodus lays out an enormously long and specific set of regulations on how to build:

The Second Temple

Boundary stones demarcating Israelite territory

Stelae inscribed with Mosaic law

The tabernacle

The altar of Bethel

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Biblical scholars find the puzzling episode of Dinah, Simeon, Levi, and the Shechemites in Genesis, Chapter 34 to be:

An illustration of the later historical arrival of the Deuteronomist.

An episode that strongly contradicts the Documentary Hypothesis.

An illustration of the Priestly source's peculiar theology.

An example of the "J" and "E" sources staking out opposing viewpoints.

A near transcription of a real, archaeologically corroborated event.

10 / 10

Though it has many critics and variations, the generally accepted alternative to the notion that Moses wrote the Pentateuch is called:

The Legal Codes Theory

The Spinoza Hypothesis

The Yashush Theory

The Documentary Hypothesis

The Karlstadt Thesis

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