Blessing of Jacob - Quiz
A) Leviticus B) Exodus C) Genesis D) Numbers
A) Genesis 35:1–15 B) Genesis 50:1–10 C) Genesis 49:1–27 D) Genesis 48:8–22
A) Eleven B) Ten C) Twelve D) Fourteen
A) Joseph B) Jacob C) Moses D) Judah
A) When he meets Esau B) When he is about to die C) When he leaves Laban D) When he arrives in Egypt
A) Classical Hebrew period B) Archaic Hebrew period C) Late Biblical Hebrew period D) Modern Hebrew period
A) The Blessing of Isaac B) The Blessing of Moses C) The Blessing of Balaam D) The Blessing of Aaron
A) Judah B) Reuben C) Dan D) Gad
A) Judah B) Gad C) Dan D) Ephraim
A) Gad B) Judah C) Dan D) Levi
A) Praise all of them equally B) Banish them from the land C) Ignore them completely D) Castigate them
A) Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali B) Reuben, Simeon, and Levi C) Dan, Gad, and Asher D) Judah, Joseph, and Benjamin
A) Reuben's betrayal of Joseph to the merchants B) Reuben's refusal to fight in the northern battles C) Reuben's incest with Bilhah, his father's concubine D) Reuben's failure to conquer his assigned land
A) In the far northern region B) Completely within that of Judah C) Along the Mediterranean coast D) East of the Jordan river
A) Their corresponding wickedness B) Their peaceful surrender of land C) Their refusal to participate in tribal wars D) Their lack of population growth
A) Judah and the Joseph tribes B) Dan, Gad, and Asher C) Reuben, Simeon, and Levi D) Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali
A) Ephraim B) Simeon C) Reuben D) Judah
A) Isolated, and thus as seafaring B) Peaceful, and thus as farming C) Mighty, and thus as conquering D) Weak, and thus as defensive
A) Northern bias of the Elohist B) Priestly bias of Jerusalem C) Deuteronomistic bias of the monarchy D) Southern (i.e. Judah) bias of the Jahwist
A) Verses 20, 21, 22, and 23 B) Verses 1, 2, 3, and 4 C) Verses 10, 25, 26, and probably verse 18 D) Verses 12, 13, 14, and 15
A) Holzinger B) Ernest Renan C) Kuenen D) August Dillmann
A) The complete absence of poetic parallelism B) A great variety of forms, ranging from smooth and clear language to obscure language C) The uniform linguistic style across all verses D) A strict chronological ordering of historical kings
A) Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, and Issachar B) Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah C) Ephraim, Manasseh, Dan, and Gad D) Zebulun, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali
A) Deborah B) Samson C) Joshua D) Gideon
A) Making an insidious rear attack instead of offering a bold challenge B) Relying entirely on naval blockades C) Engaging in open chariot warfare on the plains D) Seeking peace treaties with surrounding nations
A) The period of the Judges B) The Babylonian exile C) The united monarchy of Solomon D) The kingdom of Judah
A) A defeated nation B) A peaceful shepherd C) A rising power D) A declining empire
A) A nomadic migration into the eastern desert B) A civil war between northern and southern tribes C) A defensive war in which Joseph was successful D) An aggressive campaign to conquer Egypt
A) Ernest Renan B) August Dillmann C) Zimmern D) Ball
A) The text explicitly mentions the Philistines instead B) The tribe of Joseph never engaged in any military conflicts C) The Arabs did not use archers during the biblical period D) Arab conflicts were confined to Manasseh east of the Jordan, whereas 'Joseph' designates those dwelling west of the Jordan
A) The Arameans of Damascus B) The Philistines of the coast C) The Moabites of the plateau D) The Assyrian empire
A) Solomon B) David C) Hezekiah D) Jeroboam II
A) The seventh century B) The sixth century C) The ninth century D) The eleventh century
A) In the tenth century during the height of the united monarchy B) Probably in the second half of the ninth century, before Jeroboam's conquests, in the Southern Kingdom C) In the eighth century after the fall of Samaria D) In the fifth century during the return from Babylonian exile
A) The complete absence of any reference to Joseph B) The strict geographical order of all twelve tribes from north to south C) The direct literary connection to the Babylonian zodiac D) Both the esteem felt for Judah and the silence concerning the Benjamite kingdom and possibly the Northern Kingdom
A) There are no geographical references whatsoever in the poem B) All the tribes mentioned were located exclusively east of the Jordan river C) The text lists the tribes in alphabetical order rather than geographical order D) The very first tribe mentioned is the most northerly, and the sequence is broken by Gad
A) Kuenen B) August Dillmann C) Ernest Renan D) Zimmern
A) Holzinger B) Wilhelm Gesenius C) J. P. N. Land D) Ball
A) It provides an exact calendar of the ancient Israelite agricultural year B) It is the only source of information for certain tribes in ancient times and an aid in rendering sources like Genesis 34 more intelligible C) It outlines the precise legal codes of the united monarchy D) It gives a complete genealogical tree of all Hebrew patriarchs |
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