Exam 6: Escape From Egypt

Both the Puritans who settled in the American colonies and the enslaved Africans who were forcibly brought to the American colonies viewed their oppressors Pharaoh.

All of the following titles are associated with Miriam except:

The Amarna Letters date to the reign of:

The ______________ may have been developed from two originally distinct festivals, including the agricultural festival of unleavened bread.

Could the Exodus from Egypt be a historical event? What historical and literary factors suggest that the Exodus actually occurred? What details of the story are unlikely to be historical?

"The sons of ____________" is a term for the priests who officiated in the Temple of Jerusalem.

In Jewish tradition the book of Exodus is known as:

In the Late Bronze Age, El became the chief Ugaritic god.

The divine name was considered so sacred that the high priest used it only on:

Why is the character of Moses so important to the formation of ancient Israel's identity? What aspects of his life and personality make him a "typical" Near Eastern hero?

The escapees from Israel crossed a body of water called yam suf, which means_______________.

Divine figures are often reluctant to give their names because naming suggests:

The closest parallel to Moses's rescue from the Nile is the account of:

Moses's father-in-law is________.

In Ugaritic myth, the storm-god is known as:

Egyptian documentation of the Exodus refers to all of the following except:

The account of the plagues in the Exodus matches the number and order of the description of the plagues in Pslams 78.44-51 and 105.28-36.

Most scholars agree that the Exodus should be dated to the ____________ century bce.

The name Yahweh may originally have been a kind of title or epithet identifying the deity as a:

How does the version of the call of Moses found in P differ from the other account of Moses' call? What is the significance of these differences?