Chapter 9 The Remnant:
Making a Home After the Exile
Introduction pg. 210
1. What is the Restoration?
2. What was more important than returning literally?
3. What Books of the Bible are included in this
chapter? (pg. 213 brief description of each)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Concept A Chronicles
Read pp. 214 Answer Review on pg. 214
A. Background
1. When was Chronicles written?
2. What was the purpose of the Book of Chronicles?
3. What does Chronicles provide?
4. Of what did Chronicles remind the people?
B. David as a Leader of Worship
Concept B The Return: Discouragement and Struggle
Read pp. 215 to 218 Answer Review on pg. 218
A. Background
1. What are chapters 1 to 6 of the Book of Ezra about?
2. Who was Ezra?
B. Third Isaiah
1. What are chapters 56 to 66 of Isaiah about?
2. What does Third Isaiah challenge the people to?
3. What true fasting did God want?
4. What does Third Isaiah promise?
5. List two themes in Third Isaiah
a.
b.
6. Handout______ What Broader Meaning is Involved
Concept C The Second Temple
Read pp.219 to 222 Answer Review on pg. 222
A. Background
1. What happened after Israel languished for a
period of eighteen years?
B. Haggai
1. Why does Haggai think that the people need the
Temple?
2. What is their fervor centered on?
3. Why do the people need the Temple?
a.
b.
c.
C. Zechariah
1. Who is Zachariah?
a.
b.
2. Who are the highest leaders of the Exile?
3. What images does Zachariah use?
D. Research on Apocalypse
E.Malachi
1. What does the name Malachi mean?
2. When was Malachi written?
3. What is the situation?
4. What does Malachi reveal?
5. What does Malachi tell the people to do with their
income?
F. New Earth
Concept D Renewal
Read pp. 223 to 230 Answer Review on pg. 230
A. Background
1. What would have happened without the firm
boundaries set by Ezra and Nehemiah?
B. Nehemiah: Rebuilding the Walls pg. 223
1. Who was Nehemiah?
2. Why did Nehemiah call for rebuilding the walls?
3. Why did Nehemiah order the gates sealed on the
Sabbath?
4. Why did Nehemiah condemn Jews who married
foreign women?
C. Ezra: Recommitting to the Law
1. Who was Ezra?
2. What was Ezra’s greatest contribution?
3. What happened as a result of Ezra and Nehemiah’s
exclusionist program?
4. What Books of the Bible offer a more universal
view of intermarriage?
D. Joel: Locusts
1. Who was Joel?
2. What did the image mean?
E. Obadiah: Woe to Edam (shortest book in the Bible)
1. Why did Obadiah attack Edom?
2. Who was Edom?
Concept E Keeping the Faith Alive Under Fire
Read pp. 231 to 242 Answer Review pg. 242
A. Introduction pg. 231
1. What Books will be studied in this section?
2. When were they written?
C. Books of Maccabees
1. What is the First Book of Maccabees about?
2. What is the Second Book of Maccabees about?
3. How did the Greeks desecrate the Temple?
4. Why wouldn’t Eleazer eat the meat that looked
like pork?
5. Why did a mother and her seven sons choose to be
martyred rather than break the Jewish Law?
6. What happened in 164 BCE?
7. What is the rededication of the temple called?
C. Daniel
1. What kind of resistance to Greek rule is shown in
Daniel?
2. In the story, what happened to Daniel because he
refused to give up his faith?
3. What was the author of Daniel trying to say to the
young Jews under Greek persecution?
D. Apocalyptic Literature
1. What is the purpose of Apocalyptic Literature?
E. Daniel, Martyrdom, and Resurrection
F. Becoming a Dispersed People
G. Prophet Chart
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