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| ___ has survived because it is centered in the Jewish Bible | Judaism |
| This Greek ruler conquered the Persian Empire | Alexander the Great |
| This book is not concerned with Israel's scandals but its history | Book of Chronicles |
| This group was regarded as inferior to the Jews of the south | Samaritans |
| Antichus IV eventually orders all Jews to abandon their religion under | penalty of death |
| The stories and visions in theBook of Daniel address the situation of the Jews under | Greek rule |
| Explains how a foreign woman came to be the great-grandmother of King David | Ruth |
| Before Jerusalem's wall are completely rebuilt, the ___ do not live harmoniously together | wealthy and the poor |
| The notion that God's love for Israel wil lmake it a light to the nations ultimately bringing together all people under God's Reign | universalism |
| the rebuilding of Jerusalum's walls proided a sense of security to Jerusalem's inhabitants and smbolized the outlines of Judah's | identity |
| The Chronicler criticized and condemned the kings who came after Solomon and led Isreale into | infidelity |
| This man and his family managed to achieve a degree of independence for Judea | Judas Maccabeus |
| A problem of Greek dominiation in Jdea was that at the time Greek rulers ___ Jews for practicing their religion | punished |
| /some of the later books in the bible were originally written in ___ because so many Jews no longer understood Hebrew | Greek |
| The governor of Judah and a model public servant, he called for the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls. | Zerubbabel |
| Two books of Chronicles were written after the ___ of the Temple | rebuilding |
| Filled with code so that Greek opporessors couldn't understand the meaning | xx |
| Focuses on a plague of locusts that ravages the land, symbolizing God's judgement on the poeple's continuing infidelity | Joel |
| The stories and visions in theBook of Daniel asre set in the | Babylon |
| 3rd Isaish sees things going ___rapidly after the exiles return | downhill |
| The New Testament contains over ___ references to Zachariah. | seventy |
| A prophet wo encourages the exiles to get going again on rebuilding the Temple in order to preserve the people's faith | Haggai |
| Intends to get across God's universal love for all peoples through the satirical story of a mean-spirited prophet | Judas |
| Apocalyptic literature is a kind of writing characterized by strange | symbolic images |
| The first place we hear about Ezra | Nehemiah |
| The problem of Greek domination in Judah was that the Greek ___lured Hebrews | lifestyle and thinking |
| What event from Jesus' life reminds us of the image from Zechariah | riding on a donkey |
| In Nehemiah's time the quickest way to waken a people's religious committment was to | inter marriage |
| Accoridng to 3rd Isaish, | true fasting |
| Referring to a pasaage from 3rd Isaish, this person is reported by Luke to have said,,"Today it is fulfilled in your hearing." | Jesus |
| The period after the exiles returned to Jerusalem | restoration |
| A priest and scribe from Babylon who led a religious renewal in Jerusalem | Ezsa |
| Danile's visions and the Book of Revelation are prime exaples of ___ | apocalyptic literature |
| Also called the Feast of Lights, has its origns in the celebration that followed the rededication of the Temple after the Greeks had defiled it | Hannakah |
| Belief i ___ appears i the book of Daniel and the Maccabees | afterlife |
| a grandson of King Jehoiachin and governor of Judah, he and the high priest Joshua led the returned exiles in building a new temple | Zerubbabel |
| a history of the Jewish revolt against the Persian kings | Maccabees |
| The people tolerated and supported Ezra's reforms | Persians |
| The returned exiles ___the offer of the Samaritans to rebuild the Temple | rejected |
| The shortest book in the Bible, a one-chapter attack on Edom | Obadiah |
| Nehemiah had the Jes who married foreign women beaten and sealed Jer. gates on the | Sabbath |
| Nehemiah had | lineage |
| The Book of Malachi depicts faith at its ___ in Jerusalem | lowest |
| This prophet, who pen name means my messenger, tells the people to thrive | Malachi |
