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Critical Study Of The O.T Texts Question Paper

Critical Study Of The O.T Texts

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Bible Studies

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2006/2007
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS
ARE 201: CRITICAL STUDY OF THE O.T. TEXTS
DATE: Wednesday 12thFebruary, 2007
TIME: 4.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer THREE questions. At least ONE from each section.
SECTION I
1.
Enumerate and discuss the categories or groups of the books of the Old Testament.
2.
(a)
With reference to style and vocabulary discuss the structure and organization of the Pentateuch.
(b)
Discuss the issue of duplication, inconstitencies and discrepancies of certain passages in the Pentateuch.
3.
Tradition made Moses the author of the Torah (Law), but scholarship has long been dissatisfied with this view. Discuss.

SECTION II
4.
(a)
Identify some of the data that scholars considered as evidence of sources behind the Pentateuch.
(b)
What were the major sources detected in the Pentateuch?
(c)
Briefly describe the key characteristics of each source.
5.
Discuss the major achievements of the wisdom literature?
6.
Either:
(a)
Identify the major types of Psalms; and outline the key theological themes of the Psalter.
Or
(b)
Explain the fundamental theological claim of the Deutronomistic History and how the stages of Israel's history verify that claim.
Or
(c)
Discuss the similarities and differences between the book of Numbers and Deutronomy.