Format of Ceresko Exam on 10 July 2009

General Instructions:
1. Before the start of the exam, everybody must vacate the T2 room for the teacher to make a special seating arrangement.
2. When told to enter, only writing pen/s are allowed inside the room--nothing else.
3. Look for your assigned seat quietly.
4. Write legibly. Illegible answers can be marked wrong.
5. Be precise and clear with your answers.
6. Not following instructions may merit a minus.
7. Cheating in any form is "vocational suicide" - talking to anyone except the teacher is not allowed. Raise your hand quietly if you have a question.
8. Use only the papers provided for your answer sheets.
9. Duration: 1 hour = 60 minutes.

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I. Multiple Choice (10 pts) Choose the best answer to each question. Write the letter in the space provided.

II. Enumeration (10 points). Enumerate or identify without explaining.

III. Essay (10 points). Use the yellow pad paper provided for you. Explain and elaborate only two of your own choice out of these three questions. Maximum of 10 lines per question. Do not copy the questions.

Deadline: Submission of Research Paper - September 11, 2009

Note that the deadline for the submission of your Research Paper is on or before Friday, September 11, 2009 (Time: 11:10 AM).

Torah File 3: Exegesis Paper I: Literary Structure

Torah File no. 3 is for Torah Students at Divine Word Seminary (T2)--presentation on the Exegesis Paper: Part I - Literary Structure

On the Research Paper

I will discuss on this coming Friday class (19 June), after the quiz, the details of the research paper. But you can think of your topic now, example: "The Crossing of the Sea;" "The Holiness Code". Go through the Torah, its subtitles in particular, to choose a topic that interests you.

Torah File 2

This is assigned reading no. 1 - Jean-Louis Ska, "The Role of Torah in the Covenanted Community of Israel," in The Torah: "Israel's Portable Homeland," CBAP Lectures 2008 (Quezon City: CBAP, 2009), pp. 1-24.

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Torah File 1

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FOR THE INCOMING PENTATEUCH STUDENTS (Semester 1: 2009-2010)

From: Fr. Randolf C. Flores, SVD, SSL
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TO SURVIVE THIS COURSE….

Prepare the following during this looooong summer vacation (March 29 - June 8):

Read Anthony Ceresko, Introduction to the Old Testament: A Liberation Perspective (revised and expanded Edition; Quezon City: Claretians, 2001), "Part 2: Pentateuch", pp. 29-93. There will be a major exam on this reading on July 10, 2009. BUY your copy now before you go out for the summer break.

Attention:
This is an examination of reading comprehension and so the content will not be discussed in class. Questions found at each end of a chapter will be considered as examination questions.

DO NOT review the prepared answers from past reviewers which very often perpetuate wrong and “wowowee type” of answer. Read yourself the assigned pages!

This examination assures the professor that the student has a basic or college-level knowledge of the Torah/Pentateuch before tackling advanced and critical studies of the subject.

A student who fails in this examination will be gently but honestly advised to drop the course. Should the failing student decide to remain in the course, he/she can for that is his /her right.

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As additional but important preparation to survive the course, please read and master the following:

1. Selected Biblical Texts from the Pentateuch

Genesis

Gen 1-3 (creation and sin); 6:5 - 9:17 (flood); 12:1-3 (call of Abraham); 15 (Covenant of YHWH with Abraham; 18:1-15 (vision at Mamre); 22:1-19 (the Akedah); 28:10-22 (vision at Bethel); 32:23-32 (Jacob's destiny); 37 (Joseph and his brothers); 45:1-13 (Joseph reveals himself to his brothers); 50:15-31 (Joseph's reconciliation with his brothers).

Exodus

Exod 2:1-10 (birth of Moses); 3:1-15 (3:1 - 4:17) (call of Moses); 7:1 - 10:11; 12:29-36 (the plagues); 14:1-31 (the crossing of the sea); 19:1-19 (theophany at Sinai); 20:1-17 (the decalogue); 24:1-11 (covenant at Sinai); 32-34 (golden calf,vision of Moses, the renewal fo the covenant).

Leviticus
Lev 19:1-19 ("Be holy as I am holy").

Numbers

Numbers 13-14 (exploration of the Promised Land); 22-24 (Balaam).

Deuteronomy

Deut 4 (the significance of Sinai); 6:1-9 ("shema Israel"); 8 (the temptations in the holy land); 30:11-14 (the word is near); 30:15-20 (the two ways).

2. MICHAEL GORMAN (ed.), Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2005), pp. 23-44 "The Geography, History, and Archeology of the Bible" (by K. J. Wernell); pp. 45-70 "The Character and Composition of the Books of the Old Testament" (by D. A. Leiter),

3. JEAN-LOUIS SKA, Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2006). This is the main reference of the course and there will be a weekly quiz based on my lectures and on this book. A copy is found on reserve in the Arnoldus Library.

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