| A | B |
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| A governor who calls for everyone in the city to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem He orders the city gates sealed before the Sabbath and condemns Jews who have married foreign women. | Nehemiah |
| Persian ruler who defeated the Babylonians and allowed the Israelites to return home from the Exile. | Cyrus |
| A priest and scribe who loved the Torah. By preaching the Law, he provided a kind of constitution for the Jews- rooting their lives in a common faith and a common code of behavior. | Ezra |
| He established a Greek Empire in 330 BCE which was oppressive to the Jews at times but also alluring in its sophisticated culture. | Alexander the Great |
| Seleucid king in 175 BCE. He tries to counter Jewish resistance by ordering everyone in his realm to embrace his religion. He defiles the Temple by having an altar to Zeus erected in the Holy of Holies. | Antiochus IV |
| Jewish elder arrested by Greeks for his refusal to eat pork, a meat forbidden by Jewish Law as being unclean. Jews working for the Greeks offer a substitute. He refuses because he does not want to scandalize the young watching him. | Eleazar |
| Jewish leader who takes on the mighty Greek Empire in 166 BCE and manages to achieve a measure of independence for little Judea. | Judas Maccabeus |
| A story of a young man who was placed in a lion’s den for his refusal to give up the faith. In the end God’s power saves him from harm. | Daniel |
| The Greek Translation of the Old Testament and today the oldest complete version in existence | Septuagint |
| The notion that God’s love for Israel will make it a “Light to the Nations”, ultimately bringing together all people under God’s reign | universalism |
| The ones who returned to Judah after the exile, those few in number but strong in faith that became the basis of a new Israel | Remnant |
| The period after the exiles returned to Jerusalem | Restotation |
