Chapter 1
Quiz
1. The lasted from approximately 1000-930 BCE.
2. The tribe of gave its name to the monarchy in the southern highlands.
3. The lasted from 586-538 BCE.
4. Also called the Maccabees, were a priestly family that established a monarchy in the second and first centuries BCE.
5. is a family of historical methods that analyzes how and where the biblical texts (and oral traditions in them) were composed.
Multiple Choice
1. Most of the biblical story takes place in which geographic region of Israel?
The coastal plain
The central hill country
The Jordan Valley
The Transjordanian Plateau
2. As used in the Bible, the term “Israel” may refer to:
The tribal groups of the northern highlands and specifically NOT those of the south
The tribal groups of the southern highlands and specifically NOT those of the north
The people of the southern highlands along with those of the north
A and C but not B
3. The people of Israel first emerge in the archaeological record around:
1800 BCE
1500 BCE
1250 BCE
1000 BCE
800 BCE
4. Which empire destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel?
Assyria
Babylonia
Egypt
Persia
5. In what year was the kingdom of Israel was destroyed?
745 BCE
722 BCE
586 BCE
538 BCE
6. In what year was Jerusalem destroyed?
745 BCE
722 BCE
586 BCE
538 BCE
7. What empire was responsible for the destruction of Jerusalem and its first temple?
Assyria
Babylonia
Egypt
Persia
8. Which is the correct sequence of empires that dominated Israel and Judah?
Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, Roman, Hellenistic
Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman
Assyrian, Persian, Babylonian, Hellenistic, Roman
Egyptian, Babylonian, Hellenistic, Persian, Roman
9. Which kind of criticism studies different types of texts in the Bible and their likely social contexts?
Form criticism
Tradition criticism
Source criticism
Redaction criticism
10. Feminist, gender, and postcolonial criticism are all types of:
Historical criticsm
Literary criticism
Cultural criticism
Ideological criticism