Points for the Final Examination in Torah (Pentateuch)

Puncta pro examinatione
INTRODUCTION TO THE TORAH (PENTATEUCH)
Fr. Randy C. Flores, SVD
Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay City
October 10, 2009

Part I: Short Answers. Explain briefly the following (= 25 points).
Part II: Take-Home Essay: The God-Problem: Why Does God Allow Natural Disasters?(= 25 points)

Coverage (questions will be taken from those with * asterisks):
Chapter 1: Role of Torah in the Covenanted Community of Israel*
Chapter 2: Basic Questions about the Pentateuch
Chapter 3: The Five Books of the Pentateuch: Its Content and Structure*
Chapter 4: The First Story of Creation
Chapter 5: The Second Story of Creation*
Chapter 6: Cain and Abel; The Flood Story; and The Tower of Babel*
Chapter 7: The Divine Discourses in the Ancestors Story
Chapter 8: Exodus 1-15*
Chapter 9: The Law in Ancient Israel*
Chapter 10: Introduction to the Book of Leviticus
Chapter 11: The Priestly Writer
Chapter 12: Introduction to the Book of Numbers
Chapter 13: The Decalogue
Chapter 14: The History of Pentateuchal Scholarship (Ska, Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch, pp. 96-164).