Title: Chapter 02: Fill-in-the-blank/Short Answer Questions: Ancestral Stories
Course: Engaging the Christian Scriptures Instructor's Manual

Q: The ancestral stories are found in which chapters of the Bible?
- Gen. 12–50 (Gen. 12–50)

Q: The ancestral stories recount narratives from how many generations?
- 4

Q: The promise that constitutes the primary theme of the ancestral stories is often expressed in terms of what three things?
- descendants, land, blessing (descendants, land, blessing)

Q: Why is the image of the Pentateuch as a river fed by tributaries a helpful one?
(Answer: because various story traditions all feed into the larger Pentateuchal narrative

Q: The classic theory that the Pentateuch developed from the combination of several documents is known as the ____________.
A: documentary hypothesis