Exam 9: In the Wilderness

The Amalekites are never mentioned in a nonbiblical source.

The national deity of the Moabites was:

All biblical sources make unequivocally clear that Miriam is the sister of Moses.

P alters the genealogy of Caleb to make him a member of the tribe of:

The Deir Alla texts confirm almost all of the details of the biblical account of Balaam, the son of Beor.

The census statistics in Numbers include all Israelite men, women, and children.

The king of _____________ hired Balaam to curse the Israelites?

The episode of the scouts in Numbers 13-14 is reminiscent of the story of _______________?

The rebellions by the priests Dathan and Abiram provide an etiology for the decline of the tribe of ____________:

______________ is afflicted with a skin disease as punishment for protesting Moses' marriage to a non-Israelite.

The law that guaranteed the priests a share of the offerings was called the:

All of the laws included in Numbers are repetitions of laws found in Exodus and Leviticus.

He claimed that all of Israel was holy and therefore the leadership of Moses and Aaron was unjustified:

Caleb was of _____________ descent.

The Hebrew title for the book of Numbers refers to its setting in _______________.

The wife accused of adultery must drink the _________________.

Yahweh commanded Moses to defeat the ___________________, a group with whom Moses and the Israelites had previously appeared to be friendly, during their journey to the Promised Land.

Moses and Aaron are condemned by God following the events at:

A term used for the deified dead is:

The use of an ordeal to prove cases of adultery is found in both Numbers and: