WorksheetsPatterns of the Evidence- The Moses Controversy
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 22mins
The key question of the study is, “Did Moses have the ability to write the first five books of the Bible ___________________________?”
as an eyewitness account
without the help of a scribe
while being illiterate
before there was any form of writing
while running an organization with 600,000 grouchy people
Throughout history all known Torah scrolls were written in __________________.
blue ink
Hebrew
Greek
Latin
haste
The oldest know copies of the Old Testament are the ___________________.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Masoretic texts
Jordan River Papyri
Codex Sinaitus
Sea of Galilee Scrolls
The oldest discovered copies of the Old Testament showed essentially the same wording as Bibles today with only variations with things like _____________________.
doctrine
spelling
authorship
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.
cow hide
sheep skin
river reed
leafy green
stone
For Moses to have written the Torah and for the Israelites to read it they needed the power of ________________.
the sun
an alphabet
wealthy leaders
the press
women
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?”
Pharaoh
Caesar
Jesus
Joseph
Noah
Ancient inscriptions found at Sinai confirm that the Proto-Sinaitic script is the earliest known ____________.
grocery list
hymn
alphabet
Bible verse
form of writing
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.
True
False
One key understanding of language is to realize that each letter ____________________.
has a corresponding anti-letter
has changed over time
can make multiple sounds
has a fixed place in the alphabet no matter the culture
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 ____________________.
hieroglyphics
Greek
Latin
Hebrew
English
Thomas Kuhn stated that science has not progressed in an even linear fashion but with periodic revolutions from _______________________.
the work of cultural Marxists
paradigm shifts
new divine revelation
the death of old people
climate change
One problem with reading ancient Semitic inscriptions is the fact that the inscriptions lack proper punctuation.
True
False
The 2nd Century historian Eupolemus taught that Moses imparted grammar to the ________________ who then shared it with the Phoenicians.
Jews
Egyptians
Greek
Romans
Canadians
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 coincidence of anthropological evolution
a conspiracy of epic proportions
a divinely inspired gift from God
an act of academic torture created by a language teacher but later
the work of revolutionaries trying to gain political power but later
