TEST BANK – EXAM TWO
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Historical and Cultural Backgrounds and Issues in Theology
1. Which of the following represents most accurately the means by which scholars arrive at dates for
events in the history of the Ancient Near East?
a. A solar calendar, discovered in Egypt, lists all the pharaohs from the fourth dynasty on and
correlates them with Mesopotamian rulers
b. Because there is no fixed point with which to correlate dates from each separate empire, we
are left with only very approximate guesses
c. There are lists from Assyria in which years were named after individuals and
notable occurrences one of which was an eclipse dating to 763 BCE
d. We simply have to figure back from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE
and, in the process, add up all the years of the reigning kings
2. Which of the following represents most accurately the means by which scholars arrive at dates for
events in the history of the Ancient Near East?
a. When the church gained dominance in the fourth century, it standardized all the
culturally determined calendars into one system
b. The magi in Babylon developed a system for correlating astronomical years with political
leaders
c. There are lists from Assyria in which years were named after individuals and
notable occurrences are mentioned, one of which was an eclipse dating to 763 BCE
d. It is possible to work backwards from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE
because it was such a significant international event that all the cultures in the Ancient
Near East mentioned it
3. The foreigners who ruled Egypt for about 150 years prior to the beginning of the 18th
dynasty, were hated by the Egyptians, and were driven out by Ahmose were called
a. Hyksos b. Habiru
b. Hamites d. Edomites
c. none of these
4. Who were the Hyksos?
a. They built the pyramids during the fourth dynasty
b. They dominated Egypt between about 1700 and 1550 BCE and their role as outsiders
who were hated may have contributed in some way to the antipathy that the Egyptians
felt toward Israel
c. This was another term for the Hebrews taskmasters who oversaw their fellow Hebrew
slaves and reported misdeeds to the Egyptian hierarchy
d. This was the large category of women from which the midwives came
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e. None of the above
5. Which Egyptian ruler indicated that he had subdued the people of Israel as he was
conquering parts of the land known as Canaan?
a. Thutmose III b. Ramses II
c. Supiluliamus IV d. Ahmose
e. none of the above
6. Which empire made treaties with the Egyptians which demonstrate a significant formal
similarity to the structure of the covenant as articulated in Exodus 20-24 and the book of
Deuteronomy?
a. Babylonian b. Assyrian
c. Hittite d. Hellenistic
e. none of the above
7. Examples that have been found of Hittite treaties were made between the Hittites and
a. powerful city-states in Mesopotamia
b. exiles from the Greek islands
c. rulers of Jerusalem, Jericho, and Hebron
d. Egyptians
e. none of the above
8. Who was Hatshepsut?
a. the head of a coalition who ejected the Hyksos from Egypt and re-established
Egyptian rule
b. the daughter of Thutmose I and wife/sister of Thutmose II who reigned in Egypt for
a significant amount of time
c. the wife of Ramses II who was responsible for the slave labor that built the pyramids
d. the priestess who worshiped Amon-Re and taught Moses monotheism
9. Who was Hatshepsut?
a. he was one of the members of the tribe of Levi who helped to nurture Moses
b. she was the person who kept track of the location of the bones of Joseph
c. one of the Hebrew midwives blessed for sparing the lives of Hebrew boys
d. a daughter of Thutmose I, sister and wife of Thutmose II, and co-regent
with Thutmose III during the 18th dynasty
e. none of the above
10. Which of the following is not among the suggested possible reasons as to why we do not see
any evidence of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in Egyptian sources?
a. Egyptian inscriptions were propaganda tools and would not record defeats of the
Pharaoh
b. the Hyksos, who were ethnically related to the Israelites, dominate the textual
evidence that we have from that period
c. much of the activity took place in the Delta region which is muddy and would not
preserve texts well even if they did exist
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d. in the Egyptian philosophy of words, if an event were not written down, it was as
if it never occurred
11. Which of the following is not among the suggested possible reasons as to why we do not see
any mention of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in Egyptian sources?
a. Egyptian inscriptions were propaganda tools and would not record defeats of the
Pharaoh
b. when the Israelites left Egypt, they removed all the evidence of their humiliation
in slavery for more than 400 years
c. much of the activity took place in the Delta region which is muddy and would not
preserve texts well
d. in the Egyptian philosophy of words, if an event were not written down, it was as
if it never occurred
12. Why is it important to establish as clearly as we can, the date for the Exodus?
a. it determines when the Passover sacrifice was initiated and the number of years
between that and the fall of the temple represents the only period of time when Israel
was obedient to the Lord in regard to practices in the temple
b. it gives scholars a benchmark date for determining when Jacob and his family went
down into Egypt and when Abraham lived
c. it proves that the archaeological data from Egypt have been misinterpreted
d. actually, it really makes no difference whatsoever because the Exodus is only
a symbolic literary narrative, not an historical event
13. Which biblical data are most strongly supportive of the late date proposal for the Exodus?
a. There is a reference in I Kings 6:1 indicating that the interval between the Exodus and
the building of the Temple was 480 years and a second passage in Judges 11 to the
effect that Israel had occupied the territory of the Ammonites for 300 years before
that incident took place.
b. The narrative of the conquest in Joshua describes destruction of the cities in Israel
that directly match what we find in archaeological remains dating to the period
indicated by the early date.
c. The mention of building two store-cities in Exodus 1:11 suggests that the
ruling pharaoh was Ramses II who was a remarkable builder
d. The “pharaoh who did not know Joseph” (Exodus 1:8) has been identified as
Merneptah and we know he was the first of the Hyksos rulers
14. Which of the following is not a supporting piece of data for the early date proposal for the
Exodus?
a. the text of Exodus mentions building store cities of Pithom and Ramses and we
can connect those labors with the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II, who was a builder of
monumental temples and other structures
b. I Kings 6:1 indicates that the temple that Solomon built was completed in 480 years
after the Exodus and we can date the former event to 966 B.C.E.
c. Judges 11 does mention that the Israelites had controlled the region of Transjordan
for 300 years and that incident takes place around 1100 B.C.E.
Please use color coding!
:) 100% sure
Think is
correct Come
back to
Other student A’s answer
Other student B’s
answer
Historical and Cultural Backgrounds and Issues in Theology
1. Which of the following represents most accurately the means by which scholars arrive at dates for
events in the history of the Ancient Near East?
a. A solar calendar, discovered in Egypt, lists all the pharaohs from the fourth dynasty on and
correlates them with Mesopotamian rulers
b. Because there is no fixed point with which to correlate dates from each separate empire, we
are left with only very approximate guesses
c. There are lists from Assyria in which years were named after individuals and
notable occurrences one of which was an eclipse dating to 763 BCE
d. We simply have to figure back from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE
and, in the process, add up all the years of the reigning kings
2. Which of the following represents most accurately the means by which scholars arrive at dates for
events in the history of the Ancient Near East?
a. When the church gained dominance in the fourth century, it standardized all the
culturally determined calendars into one system
b. The magi in Babylon developed a system for correlating astronomical years with political
leaders
c. There are lists from Assyria in which years were named after individuals and
notable occurrences are mentioned, one of which was an eclipse dating to 763 BCE
d. It is possible to work backwards from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE
because it was such a significant international event that all the cultures in the Ancient
Near East mentioned it
3. The foreigners who ruled Egypt for about 150 years prior to the beginning of the 18th
dynasty, were hated by the Egyptians, and were driven out by Ahmose were called
a. Hyksos b. Habiru
b. Hamites d. Edomites
c. none of these
4. Who were the Hyksos?
a. They built the pyramids during the fourth dynasty
b. They dominated Egypt between about 1700 and 1550 BCE and their role as outsiders
who were hated may have contributed in some way to the antipathy that the Egyptians
felt toward Israel
c. This was another term for the Hebrews taskmasters who oversaw their fellow Hebrew
slaves and reported misdeeds to the Egyptian hierarchy
d. This was the large category of women from which the midwives came
, 2
e. None of the above
5. Which Egyptian ruler indicated that he had subdued the people of Israel as he was
conquering parts of the land known as Canaan?
a. Thutmose III b. Ramses II
c. Supiluliamus IV d. Ahmose
e. none of the above
6. Which empire made treaties with the Egyptians which demonstrate a significant formal
similarity to the structure of the covenant as articulated in Exodus 20-24 and the book of
Deuteronomy?
a. Babylonian b. Assyrian
c. Hittite d. Hellenistic
e. none of the above
7. Examples that have been found of Hittite treaties were made between the Hittites and
a. powerful city-states in Mesopotamia
b. exiles from the Greek islands
c. rulers of Jerusalem, Jericho, and Hebron
d. Egyptians
e. none of the above
8. Who was Hatshepsut?
a. the head of a coalition who ejected the Hyksos from Egypt and re-established
Egyptian rule
b. the daughter of Thutmose I and wife/sister of Thutmose II who reigned in Egypt for
a significant amount of time
c. the wife of Ramses II who was responsible for the slave labor that built the pyramids
d. the priestess who worshiped Amon-Re and taught Moses monotheism
9. Who was Hatshepsut?
a. he was one of the members of the tribe of Levi who helped to nurture Moses
b. she was the person who kept track of the location of the bones of Joseph
c. one of the Hebrew midwives blessed for sparing the lives of Hebrew boys
d. a daughter of Thutmose I, sister and wife of Thutmose II, and co-regent
with Thutmose III during the 18th dynasty
e. none of the above
10. Which of the following is not among the suggested possible reasons as to why we do not see
any evidence of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in Egyptian sources?
a. Egyptian inscriptions were propaganda tools and would not record defeats of the
Pharaoh
b. the Hyksos, who were ethnically related to the Israelites, dominate the textual
evidence that we have from that period
c. much of the activity took place in the Delta region which is muddy and would not
preserve texts well even if they did exist
, 3
d. in the Egyptian philosophy of words, if an event were not written down, it was as
if it never occurred
11. Which of the following is not among the suggested possible reasons as to why we do not see
any mention of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in Egyptian sources?
a. Egyptian inscriptions were propaganda tools and would not record defeats of the
Pharaoh
b. when the Israelites left Egypt, they removed all the evidence of their humiliation
in slavery for more than 400 years
c. much of the activity took place in the Delta region which is muddy and would not
preserve texts well
d. in the Egyptian philosophy of words, if an event were not written down, it was as
if it never occurred
12. Why is it important to establish as clearly as we can, the date for the Exodus?
a. it determines when the Passover sacrifice was initiated and the number of years
between that and the fall of the temple represents the only period of time when Israel
was obedient to the Lord in regard to practices in the temple
b. it gives scholars a benchmark date for determining when Jacob and his family went
down into Egypt and when Abraham lived
c. it proves that the archaeological data from Egypt have been misinterpreted
d. actually, it really makes no difference whatsoever because the Exodus is only
a symbolic literary narrative, not an historical event
13. Which biblical data are most strongly supportive of the late date proposal for the Exodus?
a. There is a reference in I Kings 6:1 indicating that the interval between the Exodus and
the building of the Temple was 480 years and a second passage in Judges 11 to the
effect that Israel had occupied the territory of the Ammonites for 300 years before
that incident took place.
b. The narrative of the conquest in Joshua describes destruction of the cities in Israel
that directly match what we find in archaeological remains dating to the period
indicated by the early date.
c. The mention of building two store-cities in Exodus 1:11 suggests that the
ruling pharaoh was Ramses II who was a remarkable builder
d. The “pharaoh who did not know Joseph” (Exodus 1:8) has been identified as
Merneptah and we know he was the first of the Hyksos rulers
14. Which of the following is not a supporting piece of data for the early date proposal for the
Exodus?
a. the text of Exodus mentions building store cities of Pithom and Ramses and we
can connect those labors with the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II, who was a builder of
monumental temples and other structures
b. I Kings 6:1 indicates that the temple that Solomon built was completed in 480 years
after the Exodus and we can date the former event to 966 B.C.E.
c. Judges 11 does mention that the Israelites had controlled the region of Transjordan
for 300 years and that incident takes place around 1100 B.C.E.
