Test 4

Question 1

What is the question for bibliographical test?

Answer 1

Is the text we have the same as what was originally written?

Question 2

What is the question for the internal evidence test?

Answer 2

Is the original written record credible?

Question 3

What is the question for the external evidence test?

Answer 3

Is there support for for the account?

Question 4

What motivation did the Jews have for accurately copying Scripture?

Answer 4

1. It was the word of God
2. God had entrusted them with its preservation & transmission
3. They had been commanded by God not to change it

Question 5

What 20th century discovery proved that the OT had been accurately copied over the last 2000 years?

Answer 5

The Dead Sea scrolls

Question 6

When was he complete manuscript of Isaiah estimated to have been written?

Answer 6

125 BC

Question 7

The writers of the OT scripture claim to be…

Answer 7

Speaking for God

Question 8

What evidence do we have to support the claim that they were speaking for God?

Answer 8

1. The unity of the Bible

2. Fulfilled prophecy

Question 9

Explain evidence in the unity of the Bible

Answer 9

There were multiple authors all describing the same God

Question 10

List four fulfilled prophecies

Answer 10

• his birthplace
• his virgin birth
• his miracles
• his purpose for dying

Question 11

What is the 2nd “big question” ?

Answer 11

Is the Bible reliable? Who is God?

Question 12

How do materialists view the bible?

Answer 12

They think it must be man made and can’t be historically reliable

Question 13

Explain Julius Wellhausen’s theory of the evolutionary origin of religion

Answer 13

He thought that religion evolved from pantheism to polytheism to monotheism

Question 14

Summarize Wellhausen’s Documentary Hypothesis

Answer 14

He claimed that the Torah was written by multiple authors, over hundreds of years and more than 1000 years after the events actually occurred.

Question 15

What was Wellhausen’s reasoning for his hypothesis?

Answer 15

Lack of external evidence; use of different names if God, and recording of miracles in the Torah

Question 16

What are some of the precise details given in the biblical text which situate it in the Middle Bronze Age

Answer 16

1. Covenants
2. Law codes
3. Personal names
4. Place names

Question 17

What and where is Tel el-Dab’a?

Answer 17

It’s and archeological dig in Ancient Goshen(Egypt)

Question 18

How do Israelites houses provide evidence for the presence of Israel in Egypt?

Answer 18

• four rooms

- pillared house plan

Question 19

How can Brooklyn papyrus provide evidence provide evidence for the presence of Israel in Egypt

Answer 19

• 77slave names were found

- the names were Hebrew

Question 20

How do amarna letters provide evidence?

Answer 20

• they refer to raids and conquest

- the Canaanite term “Habiru” is used

Question 21

How can Merenptah stele give evidence?

Answer 21

• it records an attack in Canaan by pharaoh

- mentions Israel as a part of Canaan and refers to them as a “dominant nation”

Question 22

Are you bored? :):):):)::):):):): :o)

Answer 22

Heehe ya

Question 23

What evidence does the Egyptian temple inscription give?

Answer 23

An inscription saying “land of the nomads of Yaweh”

Question 24

According to the bible, why did God command the Israelites to wipe out the people of Canaan?

Answer 24

Because of their idolotry and child sacrifices

Question 25

What archaeological evidence has been found that supports the biblical account of the destruction if Jericho

Answer 25

1. Grain stores weren’t plundered
2. City destroyed by fire/ a destruction layer was found
3. walls of Jericho impressively fortified
4. Walls fell outward

Question 26

What 2 archeological discoveries situate Jericho’s fall around the Biblical date of 1400 BC

Answer 26

Cypriot pottery

Egyptian scarab beetles

Question 27

What are the 3 tests used to determine the reliability of a historical document?

Answer 27

• bibliographical
• internal evidence
• external evidence