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Patterns of the Evidence- The Moses Controversy

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 22mins

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Class
Date
1.

The key question of the study is, “Did Moses have the ability to write the first five books of the Bible ___________________________?”

a)

as an eyewitness account

b)

without the help of a scribe

c)

while being illiterate

d)

before there was any form of writing

e)

while running an organization with 600,000 grouchy people

2.

Throughout history all known Torah scrolls were written in __________________.

a)

blue ink

b)

Hebrew

c)

Greek

d)

Latin

e)

haste

3.

The oldest know copies of the Old Testament are the ___________________.

a)

Dead Sea Scrolls

b)

Masoretic texts

c)

Jordan River Papyri

d)

Codex Sinaitus

e)

Sea of Galilee Scrolls

4.

The oldest discovered copies of the Old Testament showed essentially the same wording as Bibles today with only variations with things like _____________________.

a)

doctrine

b)

spelling

c)

authorship

5.

Because of the perishable nature of the _____________________ material it is not surprising that we have not found much evidence of writing from the early part of Israel’s history.

a)

cow hide

b)

sheep skin

c)

river reed

d)

leafy green

e)

stone

6.

For Moses to have written the Torah and for the Israelites to read it they needed the power of ________________.

a)

the sun

b)

an alphabet

c)

wealthy leaders

d)

the press

e)

women

7.

Scripture tells us that _________________ believed that Moses wrote the Torah. In fact he said that “If you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

a)

Pharaoh

b)

Caesar

c)

Jesus

d)

Joseph

e)

Noah

8.

Ancient inscriptions found at Sinai confirm that the Proto-Sinaitic script is the earliest known ____________.

a)

grocery list

b)

hymn

c)

alphabet

d)

Bible verse

e)

form of writing

9.

For the Proto-Sinaitic script to be an early version of Hebrew it has to match the look of Hebrew, be readable like Hebrew, and match the history of the Israelites.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

One key understanding of language is to realize that each letter ____________________.

a)

has a corresponding anti-letter

b)

has changed over time

c)

can make multiple sounds

d)

has a fixed place in the alphabet no matter the culture

11.

Many view Hebrew as an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet. However, they are indistinguishable meaning that there might be an alphabet that is an earlier version of ____________________.

a)

hieroglyphics

b)

Greek

c)

Latin

d)

Hebrew

e)

English

12.

Thomas Kuhn stated that science has not progressed in an even linear fashion but with periodic revolutions from _______________________.

a)

the work of cultural Marxists

b)

paradigm shifts

c)

new divine revelation

d)

the death of old people

e)

climate change

13.

One problem with reading ancient Semitic inscriptions is the fact that the inscriptions lack proper punctuation.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The 2nd Century historian Eupolemus taught that Moses imparted grammar to the ________________ who then shared it with the Phoenicians.

a)

Jews

b)

Egyptians

c)

Greek

d)

Romans

e)

Canadians

15.

Timothy Mahoney theorizes that the genius of the alphabet might have been ________________________ given to a particular people at a particular time to communicate the words of God to mankind

a)

a coincidence of anthropological evolution

b)

a conspiracy of epic proportions

c)

a divinely inspired gift from God

d)

an act of academic torture created by a language teacher but later

e)

the work of revolutionaries trying to gain political power but later