RC6 Flashcards
One of the reasons that the story of the Exodus may not be historically accurate is that
Select one:
No archaeological evidence has been found of campsites, temporary living quarters, etc. in the Sinai wilderness where a great number of escaped slaves were supposedly sojourning.
According to the opening of Exodus, the children of Israel
Cooperated with Pharaoh in setting up labor gangs that were fair in their expectation; a new Pharaoh “forgot” these agreements. WRONG
Waited upon God to deliver them from the Pharaohs, none of whom remembered what their forefather Joseph had done to save Egypt from the famine
Brenner writes that a 13-year-old girl, Charlotte Davies, asks a profound question about the deaths of the Egyptian firstborn males. What question does she ask?
Could God really kill all these males even if they included innocent men?
The plague of the frogs involved
The frogs reproducing wildly and filling the land, even entering the homes and kitchens of all the people.
Moses was the son of Hebrew parents, but he was raised by
Pharaoh’s mother. WRONG
Frigge sets the time of the escape from Egypt as
1280-1250 BCE.
The redactor of the story of the Exodus makes it clear that the God who liberates the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt is also
The God who condemned humankind for being wicked.
WRONG
In Brenner’s article, Davies closes her reflections on the drowning of Pharaoh and his army with God’s response:
o the rejoicing women, God said, “How can you be happy when those whom I have created are dying in the waters?”
According to Rabbi Brenner, the account of God killing the firstborn Egyptian men may not be accurate because
he redactors were too far removed from the event to remember the plague, or mass epidemic, that killed these men.
When the plague of darkness came upon the land,
This darkness lasted for three days.
The historicity of the story of the Exodus is contested because
No definitive evidence, either for or against the Exodus, has been discovered; we cannot prove what happened one way or the other.
In the book of Exodus, we see the presence of the Deuteronomist in the emphasis on
The laws and regulations that enter the story of Israel at Mt. Sinai.
One reason that the story of the Exodus may be historically accurate is that
An ancient stone pillar, an Egyptian stele, briefly mentions a band of slaves escaping during the time of Ramses II
