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| "Introduction" in Biblical Studies means: |
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| A look at mtters of origin, text, and the Biblical text |
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| "Criticism" is an inherently _______term. |
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| "Higher" and "loer" criticism: |
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| should e called "literary" and "textual" criticism |
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| Modern critics, by reason of their advanced education, are in a better position to provide introductory material than the biblical authors. T/F |
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| An enlightenment philosopher who rationalism and skepticism flavored a generation of biblical studies. |
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| Merril's book tries to distinguish: |
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| Verifiable data from variable interpretation |
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| When Jesus said He had come to "fulfill" the scriptures"he ment: |
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| that he had validated and copleted the Old Testament. |
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| We study the world of the Old Testament primarily because the Old Testament is a product of the people of Israel and the cultural milieu in which they live.T/F |
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| The tablets of Ugarit provide detailed background on the worship practices of the Canaanites and their god: which god? |
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| The Battle of Qarqar (853 BC) is not mentioned in the Bible, but is mentioned by the Assyrian Annals, and includes the name of the Isralite king: name of king |
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| One of the most distinctive features of the Judeo-Christian faith - and one noted by virtually all students of comparatie religion: |
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| Is its orientation to history |
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| Dates for events prior to Abraham are: |
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| Based primarily on Mesopotamian data |
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| Mesopotamian and Egyptian documentary history begin about the same time: |
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| The most famous king of the Old Babylonian period of Mesopotamia was: |
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| According to the biblical chronology, Joseph was sold into slavery in Egpt during the 12th dynasty - robably the reign of: |
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| The Egyptian Second Intermediate Period (c.1700-1570 BC) was a time characterized by: |
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| Cultural fragmentation under Semitic Hyksos rulers |
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| The most powerful woman who ever lived in ancient Egypt was: |
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| Hittite influence rose to significant levels as a regional power about 1350 BC under the great king: |
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| It is the view of Merrill's team (and of this class) that the Exodus narrative fits nicely in the historical context of: |
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| Just as Assyria and Babyloni were the means whereby Israel and Judah respectively met judgement and deportation, the instrument of Judah's deliverance was: |
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| Much can be learned about biblical Israel's cultural context through the study of the related disciplines of: |
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| Geography and Archaeology |
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| A tiny strip of fertile land along the Mediteranean coast, roughly 150 by 75 miles |
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| Archaeology may be defined as: |
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| the study of the material remains of man's past. |
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| The foremost biblical archaeologist in the twentieth century was: |
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| The oldes archaeological find of biblical verses is: |
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| Writing seems to have been invented at about the same times in: |
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| The emergence of the alphabet can be traced to: |
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| An Egyptian tin mine in the Sinai |
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| The one thing that clearly distinguishes Israelite culture archaeologically is: |
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| Its unique monotheistic faith |
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| The most widely copies piece of ancient literature is the: |
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| The most likely explanation of the similarities between the biblical and the ancient near eastern flood accounts is: |
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| Both draw on the same original event |
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| The Canaanite god Baal is in charge of: |
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| William Foxwell Albright introduced a method for understanding ANE cognate literatures that he called: |
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| William Hallo has proposed a method for understanding ANG cognate literature that he calls: |
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| The text of the Old Testament consists of 39 books (in English) written by numerous authors over a period of how many years? |
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| The autographs of the Old Testament were probably written on what type of materia? |
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| The degree of agreement between Hebrew manuscripts on hand before 1947 and the Dead Sea scrolls is: |
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| It is significant for the argument over the reliabilit of the Old Testament text that: |
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| Ancient rare and difficult forms were preserved. |
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| In answer to the argument that "oral tradition" can explain the transmission of the text of the Old Testament, it should be noted that, while oral tradition did exist in the ANE... |
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| Vast numbers of cuneiform documents an acres of hieroglyphics show that important documents always had a written comonent |
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| The process of "inscripturation" in which the Holy Spirit guided the writing of human authors |
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| The term "autographa" refers to: |
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| The very first copies of the original manuscripts. |
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| The term "canon" refers to: |
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| Whreas written documents form the most important method of preserving ancient tradition, these traditions were normally disseminated to a largely illiterate population orally. T/F |
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| Radical scholars have suggested a gap between the preliminary canonical form of a book and its final canonical form. T/F |
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| The doctrine of biblical inspiration is linked to a corollary truth: |
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| That God guarantees the accuracy of everything involved in the process of inscriptuation |
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| A largely conjectural method of describing the compositional history of biblical books. |
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| It is clear that biblical authors had a theological bias, in favor of the God of Israel. Therefore: |
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| Modern readers must understand the author's bias and its historical context. |
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| The Old Testament concept of "canon" was built on the conscious awareness of the community that what was written was revelation and by necessary implication, canon. T/F |
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| Josephus was aware of a canon of the Old Testament that is remarkably different from that found in modern Bibles. T/F |
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| The Jews divided the Old Testament books in three: |
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| The Law, The Prophets and the Writings |
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| Arguments over the canonicity of the "antilegomena" in the Talmud demonstrate that the rabbis of the era were: |
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| Serious, godly men whose intention was to guard the very words of God. |
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| Citations from the Apocryphal books are: |
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| Never cleraly attested in the New Testament |
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| Textual criticism is necessary because |
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| No two manuscript copies of the Hebrew bible are quite identical |
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| Ninety percent of the Old Testament verses contain textual variants. Some ten percent of those affect some major area of doctrine. T/F |
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| The Masoretes are the heirs of generations of Jewish scribes who faithfully copied the Old Testament. T/F |
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| The Dead Sea Scrolls represent: |
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| A scribal tradition some one thousand years older than our best previous Hebrew manscripts |
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| The LXX contains more significant variations from the Masoretic text than all the other versions. T/F |
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| The textual tradition of the Old Testament should be viewed as: |
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| In general, the best reading is: |
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| The one that best fits context and explains other variants |
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| Without a doubt the Masoretic Text is to be esteemed above all other textual sources. T/F |
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| During the first seventeen centuries of the Christian era, the Old Testament was regarded by scholars with reverance, as inspired scripture. T/F |
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Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars began to view the Bible as
A. Inspired
B. Basically a human book, subject to criticism. |
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| B. Basically a human book, subject to criticism. |
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| The Ketef Hinnom silver amulets demonstrate that the continuous written tradition of the Penateuch was in place long before the exile. T/F |
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| The Tel Dan inscription demonstrates that the biblical account of David is at least historically likely. T/F |
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| The biblical texts demonstrate a clear interest in establishing their own authorship and divine authority. T/F |
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| Prior to the Enlightenment, skepticism of the Bible's authority was rare, confined mostly to outsiders attacking the Judeo/Christian heritage. T/F |
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| Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophy insisted that the Bible should be subject to re-examination on the criteria of ratoinality and scientific analysis. T/F |
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| David Hume represents the thorough-going skepticism of the Enlightenment. T/F |
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| Rene Descartes said: "We should never allow ourselves to be persuaded of anything excepting by the evidence of our reason." T/F |
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| The Pentateuch, because of its antiquity and therefore small importance, was the last of the Old Testament texts to be examined by the Enlightenment fueled critics. T/F |
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Benedict Spinoza was a Jewish convert to Catholicism who opened the philosophic gate of the question of
A. the existence of God.
B. The authorship of the Pentateuch |
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| B. The authorship of the Pentateuch |
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Jean Astruc, in his little book known as "Conjectures" suggested:
A. Moses used identifiable documents to compile Genesis
B. Moses must have had Genesis dictated to him directly by God. |
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| A. Moses used identifiable docuements to compile Genesis. |
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Heinrich Ewald suggested that the E document:
A. Was primarily from Babylonian sources.
B. Was the original document to which J and other documents were added to form the Pentateuch |
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| B. Was the original document to which J and other documents were added to form the Pentateuch |
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19th century scholar Hermann Hupfeld separated the P source from the E source, based on:
A. Emphasis on cult and priesthood by the P source
B. Recent archaeological confirmation of separate manuscripts |
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| A. Emphasis on cult and priesthood by the P source |
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Julian Wellhausen gives the Documentary Hypothesis ists classic form, in the order JEDP, and dating from the:
A. 15th century
B. 9th to the 5th centuries |
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| B. 9th to the 5th centuries |
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| Source criticism is a radical approach to documents underlying the text of most of the Bible. T/F |
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Form Criticism is a kind of literary criticism of the Bible that:
A. Looks for ANE literary context of the structures of the biblical text.
B. Seeks to take verbal inspiration seriously. |
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| A. Looks for ANE literary context of the structures of the biblical text. |
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| Prior to the Enlightenment, skepticism of the Bible's authority was rare, confined to outsiders attacking the Judeo/Christian heritage. T/F |
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"Sitz im Leben" is a term that refers to:
A. an original language document behind the biblical text.
B. The sociocultural-religious settings that gave rise to the biblical traditions |
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| B. The sociocultural-religious settings that gave rise to the biblical traditions |
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| An excellent example of the valuable contributions of Form Criticism is Merrill's study of Deuteronomy as a derivation from Hittite suzerain-vassal treaties. T/F |
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| Tradition Criticism, as developed by Hermann Gunkel is built on the assumption that ancient literature existed earliest as oral poetry and was transmitted orally.T/F |
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| Brevard Childs is associated with a modern form of criticism known as Canonical Criticism. T/F |
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| Rhetorical Criticism is a synchronic method that gives attention to rhetorial tools such as scrostics, alliteration, inclusion, chiasm and the like. T/F |
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| Narrative criticism was invented by critics with an antisupernatural bias, and is therefore useless in conservative biblical study. T/F |
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| Biblical Minimalism is an approach to scripture that assumes divine inspiration and historical reliability. T/F |
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| Evangelical interpreters can benefit from critical methodologies that are not integrally based on antisupernatural assumptions. T/F |
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| Apocrypha are 12 books accepted into the Septuagint around 300 BC. T/F |
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| NT writers thought the end was near and were not as careful as OT scribes. T/F |
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Bible history began:
A. 2500 BC
b. 3000 BC |
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| Abraham is associated with 2166 BC. T/F |
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| Middle Bronze age is 2000 - 1500 BC. T/F |
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Moses occurred in:
A. Middle Bronze Age
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| Late Bronze Age started around 1000 BC T/F |
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| David was in the Middle Bronze Age around 1010. T/F |
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Most of the OT was written during which age?
A. Iron Age
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| Middle Bronze since Moses is the writer of the first five books. |
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| Ex nillo is Latin for "out of nothing" T/F |
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| The Image of God is the visible manifestation of His invisible character and attributes. T/F |
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How many generations from from Adam to Noah?
A. 7
B. 40
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How many generation from Adam to Noah?
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| There were 1600 years from Adam to Noah. T/F |
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| "Deep Time" is a evolution theory that there were lots of floods to create lots of layers. T/F |
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| Give the time line number for Abraham. |
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| Give the time line number for Isaac |
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| Time line number for Jacob |
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| Time line year for Joseph. |
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| Time line year for the Exodus. |
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| Time line year for Solomon |
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| Noah's son Shem to Abraham is 256 years. T/F |
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Who is the father of the 12 tribes?
A. Abraham
B. Isaac
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| God's covenant depends on man's obedience. T/F |
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| Dr. McMath quote "God's man is God's to command!" T/F |
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| Exodus Early Date is 1446 BC. |
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| Exodus late date of 1250 BC doesn't work for Merrill. T/F |
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| T Merrill is an early date guy 1446 BC |
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| Tutmos IV is connected to the dream stele from 1415BC T/F |
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| Covenant is a salvation method. T/F |
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| Rahab's first act of treason was her first act of faith. T/F |
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| Hesed is a kind love. T/F |
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| F Hesed is a loyal love, a love that never lets go. |
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| East Manassas, Gad, Reuben |
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| What tribe's land looks like a dog leg? |
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| The Four tribes of Galaliee are: |
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| Asher, Zebulon, Issachar, Naphtali |
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| What small tribe is inside Judah? |
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Exodus 1446 BC
Saul 1050 BC
David 1010 BC
Solomon 970 BC |
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