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Practice Exercises
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Linking
Themes to Later Authors of Torah
Read
the following two passages from Torah. Each passage has only ONE author. In each case, do the
following three things (theme-author-link method):
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- recognize the themes in the text (to identify themes, look for repetition or climactic phrases toward which other phrases point)
- identify the author for whom those themes mattered
- defend your identification by linking the historical circumstances of that author to the themes in this passage; that is, analyze why this author emphasized this/these
theme(s) at this time
Click on Moses to reveal how well you did.
Passage B
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The next generation, your children who rise up after you, as
well as the foreigner who comes from a distant country, will
see the devastation of that land and the afflictions with which
the LORD has afflicted it -- all its soil burned out by sulfur
and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support
any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,
Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his fierce anger
-- they and indeed all the nations will wonder, "Why has
the LORD done thus to this land? What caused this
great display of anger?" They will conclude,
"It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD,
the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he
brought them out of the land of Egypt. They turned
and served other gods, worshiping them, gods whom they had not
known and whom he had not allotted to them; so the anger of
the LORD was kindled against that land, bringing on it every
curse written in this book. The LORD uprooted them
from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them
into another land, as is now the case." The
secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things
belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the
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Passage C
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- When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly." Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
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