Questions for Study ---
| 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.10 | 4.11 | 4.12 |
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.1) In the LXX, the
name of Exodus means “the book of the departure from Egypt.”
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.1) The book of Exodus
is named after the focus of the first fifteen chapters of the book, rather
than the contents of the entire book.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.1) The geographical
movements in the book of Exodus help one to better understand the contents
of the book.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.1) Chapters ____ of
Exodus tell the story of the Hebrews arriving at the mountain where a holy
God reigns and creates the people of Israel.
a)
1-15
b) 16-40
___ #. (4.1) Chapters ____ of Exodus
tell the story of the Hebrews leaving the city where the evil Pharaoh reigns
and enslaves them.
a)
1-15
b) 16-40
___#. (4.1) The book of Exodus can be understood as a pilgrimage undertaken first by Moses alone (chaps 2-4), then by all the people (chaps 13-40).
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.1) Which version of
the Old Testament is our English name “Exodus” derived?
| a) The Hebrew Bible | b) The LXX |
#. (4.1)
List the major events in Israel’s story described in the book of Exodus:
(1) Chapters 1:1-13:16:(2) Chapters 13:17-18:27:
(3) Chapters 18:28-40:38:
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.2) The experience
mentioned more often by the biblical writers than any other is
a)
the covenant of God with Abraham
b) the Exodus
c) the reign of David as king
___ #. (4.2; NOSB3:HebBible:82-84) At the center of the story of the Exodus is
| a) Moses | b) Abraham | c) Joseph |
___ #. (4.2; NOSB3:HebBible:82-84)
Moses was called to be the prophetic interpreter of God’s liberating actions
and the priestly mediator of the covenant between God the people.
| a) True | b) False |
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.3; NOSB3:HebBible:82-84)
The major difficulty of reconstructing the history of the Israelite people
during this period of the Exodus stems basically from "the lack of comtemporaneous
evidence outside the Bible."
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.3) The narration of
the Exodus events was a central theme in the worship of Israel.
| a) True | b) False |
#. (4.4.1)
In Exodus 1:7, the descendants of Jacob were living in the northeastern
region of Egypt in a section known as the Land of __________.
"But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew
exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them."
___ #. (4.4.1) Modern American concepts of birth control were considered normative for the Hebrews during their time of slavery in Egypt.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.4.2) Which of the
following views of the dating of the Exodus of Israel uses 1 Kings 6:1
as the basis for dating?
1 Kings 6:1. “In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Iv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.”
| a) 1450 B.C.E. | b) 1290 B.C.E. | c) 1250 B.C.E. |
___ #. (4.4.2) Which of the
following views of the dating of the Exodus of Israel considers 1 Kings
6:1 as symbolic and turns to archaeological evidence among other external
factors as the basis for dating?
1 Kings 6:1. “In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Iv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.”
| a) 1450 B.C.E. | b) 1290 B.C.E. | c) 1250 B.C.E. |
___ #. (4.4.2) The mention of
two midwives in Exodus chapter one helps to determine the number of people
involved in the exodus.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.4.3) The perspective
of the books of Exodus and Numbers is to exalt Moses as the greater deliverer
of the Hebrew people from Egyptian slavery.
| a) True | b) False |
#. (4.4.3)
List one similarity and one difference between the stories of the humble
beginnings of Sargon, king of Akkad, and Moses.
(1) Similarity:
(2) Difference:
___ #. (4.4.3) As would be expected of a central character in the life of a people, numerous references to Moses exist in ancient Egyptian and other non-Jewish documents.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.4.4) The years of
the Lord’s preparation of Moses for his life’s work came to a climax with
the ’burning bush’ encounter on Mt. Horeb.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.4.4) In Jewish religious
services today, the tetragrammaton, YHWH, is not pronounced, since to pronounce
it wrongly would defile the holiness of God.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.4.4) In the ancient
reverence for God’s name, the substitute word Adonai was pronounced instead
of the name YHWH that God gave to Moses at the ’burning bush’ encounter.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.4.5) When God told
Moses on Mt. Horeb to go back to Egypt to deliver the Hebrew people, he
immediately complied without any hesitancy.
| a) True | b) False |
#. (4.4.5)
Match the correct answer that God gave to Moses’ excuses in Exodus 3-4:
| ___ (1) “Who am I that I should go?” | a) “I will give you your eloquent brother Aaron to be your spokesman.” |
| ___ (2) “Who are you that you are sending me? | b) “I will give you signs -- a rod changed to a snake, a leprous hand healed.” |
| ___ (3) “But they will not believe me” | c) “You will have the LORD’s presence with you, and he will bring the people to this mountain.” |
| ___ (4) “LORD, I cannot talk!” | d) “You shall say, ‘YHWH, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob has sent me.'” |
___ #. (4.4.6) Aaron was Moses’
______.
| a) Son | b) Father | c) Brother |
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.5.2) In the ancient
world, a ____ treaty was an agreement or contract between a superior party
and in inferior party.
| a) suzerainty | b) parity |
___ #. (4.5.2) The covenant
agreement at Sinai represents a ancient ____ treaty between God and the
Hebrew people.
| a) suzerainty | b) parity |
___ #. (4.5.2) For later generations
of Israelites, the plagues were a manifestation of the power of God, the
mighty act which the Lord had done in Egypt to deliver them from slavery.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.5.3.1) To the ancient
Israelite there was no such thing as a natural event; God was in everything.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.5.3.1) To ancient
Israelites the plagues were miraculous actions of God because He is active
in everything.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.5.3.5) Which of the
following texts suggests that Israel interpreted the plagues as God’s victory
over the Egyptian gods?
a) Num. 33:4. “while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom the LORD had struck down among them; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.”b) Deut. 5:15. “You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.”
| a) Feast of Purim | b) Pentecost | c) Passover |
___ #. (4.6.3) Rather than three
million people as is sometimes suggested, most likely 25,000 to 30,000
people participated in the Exodus since they had only two mid-wives to
help with the births.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.6.4) The biblical
references along with the archaeological evidence clearly point to the
Gulf of Suez as the place of the crossing over the Red Sea in Exodus 13:18.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.6.4) Mt. Sinai is
traditionally located at Jebel Musa
a) in the Nile delta region of Egypt.
b) toward the bottom of the V-shaped land mass formed by the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqabah
c) thirty miles west of the large oasis called Kadesh Barnea.
___ #. (4.6.4) The following
map of the exodus adopts which understanding of the crossing of the sea?
Click here to get map.
| a) Gulf of Suez | b) The Bitter Lakes | c) Lake Menzaleh |
___ #. (4.6.5) Which of the
following texts interpretatively asserts the defeat of the Egyptians at
the Sea of Reeds?
a) Exod. 14:30-31. “14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. 14:31 And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.”b) Exod. 15:4-6.
“15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea;
and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.
15:5 The floods cover them;
they went down into the depths like a stone.
15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power,
thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.
___ #. (4.6.5) Which of the
following texts religiously celebrates the defeat of the Egyptians at the
Sea of Reeds?
a) Exod. 14:30-31. “14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. 14:31 And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.”b) Exod. 15:4-6.
“15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea;
and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.
15:5 The floods cover them;
they went down into the depths like a stone.
15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power,
thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.
| a) True | b) False |
| 1) | 2) |
___ #. (4.7.3; NOSB:Heb
Bible:108) According to the notes on verse
16 in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, the Amalekites were not completely
killed off until the reign of King
a) King David
b) Solomon
c) Hezekiah
#. (4.7.4) Describe how Jethro helped his son-in-law Moses at Sinai in Exodus 18.
___ #. (4.8.2; The
Decalogue) Which version of the fourth commandment comes from
Exodus?
___ #. (4.8.2; The Decalogue) Which version of the fourth commandment bases the observance of the sabbath on God's creation of the world?
a) Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work — you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. b) Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work — you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
#. (4.8.3) Identify the specific type of ancient law form as the structure of the following texts:
a) Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work — you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. b) Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work — you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
a) apodictic b) casuistic
| ___ (1) Exod. 20:3. “You shall have no other gods before Me.” |
| ___ (2) Exod. 21:12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.” |
| ___ (3) Exod. 20:13 “You shall not murder.” |
| ___ (4) Exod. 21:19 “If the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not restrained it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.” |
___ #. (4.8.4.1) Both
the Sinai covenant and the Davidic covenant compteted for Israel’s attention
during her history.
| a) True | b) False |
(1)(2)
(3)
___ #. (4.9) Moses was the law-giver
only in the sense that the basic principles from which all the laws for
Israel that were developed over several centuries were given through him.
| a) True | b) False |
#. (4.9)
In the book of Exodus the __________ Code is found, while in the book of
Deutoronomy the _____________ Code is found.
___ #. (4.9.1) The Covenant Code contains laws designed for an urbanized society.
| a) True | b) False |
#. (4.9.2)
The laws governing the offering of sacrifices and proper worship are basically
found in the ___________ Code.
___ #. (4.9.2) The Priestly Code is the last of the three law codes to develop in ancient Israel.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.9.2) A detailed description
of the ark and the tabernacle is given in Exodus chapters
a)
1-15
b) 16-24
c) 25-31
#. (4.9.2)
Explain the purpose of the tabernacle
for the Israelites?
#. (4.9.2.1)
According
to Tullock, what were the five kinds of sacrifice described in Leviticus
1:1-6:7?
(1)
(2)
(3) (4)
(5)
#. (4.9.2.1) List the three views of why sacrifices were offered in the ancient world?
(1)
(2)
(3)
#. (4.9.2.2) Match the holy day/festival with the correct description.
| ____ 1) Passover-Unleavened Bread | a) Called the Feast of Pentecost because it came 50 days after the Passover. |
| ____ 2) Feast of Weeks | b) High priest made annual entrance into Holy of Holies to offer sacrifice for the sins of the high priesthood and of the people. |
| ____ 3) Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) | c) Celebrated the Exodus events each March/April |
| ____ 4) Day of Atonement | d) Came in early fall as celebration of the fall fruit harvest. |
___ #. (4.9.2.3) The _____ Code
is found in Leviticus 17-26.
a) Covenant
b) Priestly
c) Holiness
d) Deuteronomic
___ #. (4.9.3) King _____ discovered
the Deuteronomic Code in 621 B.C.E. and instituted a series of religious
renewals throughout the southern kingdom based on this code.
a)
Solomon
b) David
c) Josiah
(4.10)
Answer
the following questions from these scripture passage listings:
___ #. (4.10) The wording of the sixth commandment is the same in both Exodus and Deuteronomy.
Sixth Commantment: Covenant Code:
Exod. 21:12-14Deuteronomic Code:
Deut. 19:4-6, 11-13Priestly Code:
Num 35:11-12, 15-25aExod. 20:13:
You shall not murder.F45Deut. 5:14:
You shall not murder.F1412 Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death. 13 If it was not premeditated, but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee. 14 But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution. 4 Now this is the case of a homicide who might flee there and live, that is, someone who has killed another person unintentionally when the two had not been at enmity before: 5 Suppose someone goes into the forest with another to cut wood, and when one of them swings the ax to cut down a tree, the head slips from the handle and strikes the other person who then dies; the killer may flee to one of these cities and live. 6 But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before....
11 But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person, and flees into one of these cities, 12 then the elders of the killer's city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death. 13 Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.11 then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there. 12 The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation....
16 But anyone who strikes another with an iron object, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. 17 Or anyone who strikes another with a stone in hand that could cause death, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. 18 Or anyone who strikes another with a weapon of wood in hand that could cause death, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
19 The avenger of blood is the one who shall put the murderer to death; when they meet, the avenger of blood shall execute the sentence. 20 Likewise, if someone pushes another from hatred, or hurls something at another, lying in wait, and death ensues, 21 or in enmity strikes another with the hand, and death ensues, then the one who struck the blow shall be put to death; that person is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when they meet. 22 But if someone pushes another suddenly without enmity, or hurls any object without lying in wait, 23 or, while handling any stone that could cause death, unintentionally drops it on another and death ensues, though they were not enemies, and no harm was intended, 24 then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances; 25 and the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.10) The variant
readings in both Exod. 20:13 and Deut. 5:14 offer the alternative translation
of the Hebrew text as "You shall not kill."
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4:10) In all three
codes a difference is made between accidental killing and premeditated
killing.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.10) Which code
goes into greater detail regulating what the "avenger" can do?
a) Covenant Code
b) Deuteronomic Code
c) Priestly Code
___ #. (4.11.1) When the Israelites
rebelled against God in the worship of the golden calf at the bottom of
Mt. Sinai, Aaron at first desperately tried to stop them and then refused
to be a participant in this worship.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.11.2) The name for
the book of Numbers is based on the Latin numeri, rather than the
Hebrew bemidbar meaning "in the wilderness.".
| a) True | b) False |
#. (4.11.3)
Name the two spies who brought back a favorable report about the land of
Canaan:
| (1) | (2) |
___ #. (4.11.4) Israel failed
in its attempt to invade Canaan from the south because
a) the armies of Israel were untested in battle and thus were defeated.
b) Moses falsely gave the Israelite the hope they could defeat the Amalekites and Canaanites.
c) the acceptance of the majority report of the twelve spies condemned that generation to die in the wilderness.
___ #. (4.11.5) The base city
for the Israelite after leaving Sinai and before entering the Promised
Land was
| a) Gaza | b) Kadesh Barnea | c) Migdol |
| a) Via Maris | b) King’s Highway |
___ #. (4.12.2) The Moabite
religions were fertility based religions which involved sacred prostitution
as a part of the worship rites.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (4.12.4) The Hebrew term
cherem
refers to
a) grace
b) holy
war.
c) mercy.
___ #. (4.12.5) The name Deuteronomy
means
a) book
of beginnings.
b) the
second law.
c) deliverance
from slavery.
#. (4.12.6)
Explain why the book of Deuteronomy occupies a crucial place in the canon
of the Old Testament scriptures.
#. (4.12.7) The 'Two Ways' exhortation in Deut. 30:1-20 is the choice of _______ or of __________.
___ #. (4.12.8) The Pentateuch ends with the anticipation of the fulfillment of the second part of the covenant -- the giving of the land.
| a) True | b) False |