Quiz 1 Material

If an English translator takes a sentence from the Bible, which in Hebrew literally says that "Adam knew his wife, Eve," and translates it as "Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve," what model or theory of translation would this translator be following?

Which Christian Old Testament has the exact same contents as the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Tanak)?

In which section of the Tanak does would you find the biblical book of Joshua?

Carr states that the area of Israel can be divided into long, narrow strips or regions of land. In which one of these did the nations of Israel and Judah emerge?

According to Carr, before Israelite settlements appeared in the pre-state tribal period, which major power in the region dominated the area of Canaan/Palestine for about two hundred years?

Which critical method (or type of criticism) draws on strategies used for analyzing more modern texts, such as the plays of Shakespeare or the novels of Hemingway, and examines issues such as plot, structure, character development, pacing and other such features of a biblical story?

What do we call the period when many people from the nation of Judah were living in Babylonia (southern Iraq) because the Babylonians had conquered Judah and deported large numbers of people back to Babylonia? Carr calls it “one of the most important periods of biblical history."

In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, which of the following stands for the name Yahweh?

Which of the following is not a reason why we need to do textual criticism?

Of the following definitions, which provides the best general definition for the term "variant" when using that term in a discussion of textual criticism?

Novick discusses the traditional-canonical method and the historical-critical method for reading and interpreting biblical texts. Which of the following is not one of the claims that he defends concerning the relationship between these two methods?

Novick opens his book by quoting from a speech delivered in 1968 by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Novick uses the speech to demonstrate which approach to interpreting and understanding biblical texts?

What is significant about the Merneptah Stele? It’s the first mention outside the Hebrew Bible of what?

According to Carr, the idea that God (or a god) has chosen a particular people to care for and defend is known as what?

In chapter 2, Carr focuses on three of Israel’s earliest traditions found in the Hebrew Bible. Which of the following is not one of those traditions?

In the Gilgamesh epic, the figure of Gilgamesh goes and finds Utnapishtim who tells Gilgamesh about the flood. But Gilgamesh wasn't really looking for a flood story. What was he really seeking after?

According to Frymer-Kensky, what part of an ancient Near Eastern flood story should you look at in order to determine what the main problem was that caused the flood in the first place?

According to Frymer-Kensky, what group of wrongdoers were treated differently after the flood than they were before the flood -- in the biblical flood story?

According to Tov, the story of David and Goliath in the Masoretic Text is a conflation of two different versions of that story. He also says that the Septuagint (Greek) text has only one these versions of the story. What is his main reason for saying that the Septuagint translators didn't just leave out portions of a longer version of this story that was available to them?

In what year was the northern kingdom of Israel conquered by the Assyrians?

If a scholar argues that one version of the biblical flood story was written when the Assyrians were the dominant power in the ancient Near East and that the other version was written later when the Babylonians were the dominant power, what kind of analysis is this scholar doing?

Which of the following theories argues that the early Israelites were already living inside Canaan and that they came mostly from the ranks of the rural farmers who rebelled against the urban elites along the Mediterranean coast?

According to Carr, which of the following descriptions seems the best for describing the nature of early Israelite society?

Which of the following is not one of the Canaanite deities that Carr refers to?

In the story of Deborah, who kills the Canaanite army commander named Sisera?