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Practice Exercises
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Distinguishing
between the Authors of Torah
Read
the following passage from the Book of Exodus and see if you can both
distinguish between the Yahwist and the Elohist material and explain why these
passages are likely written by the authors you have chosen. Click on the Eye of Horus
to reveal how well you did.
Passage A
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Exodus 3:1-10
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the
priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and
came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel
of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush;
he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.
Then Moses said, "I must turn aside and look at this great
sight, and see why the bush is not burned up." When the
LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him
out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here
I am." Then he said, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals
from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy
ground." He said further, "I am the God of your father,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Then the LORD said, "I have observed the misery of my people
who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their
taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come
down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up
out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with
milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen
how the Egyptians oppress them. So come, I will send you to
Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."
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