Exam 22: The Restoration: Judah in the Late Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE

All are true of the book of Haggai except:

All opposed Nehemiah's restoration of Jerusalem's fortifications except:

Haggai describes Zerubbabel as a:

Second Zechariah describes all of the following except:

The word "apocalyptic" comes from a Greek term meaning ______________.

King _____________ died under mysterious circumstances in 522 bce on his return from Egypt.

Cyrus the Great was succeeded by:

The Second Temple period in Jewish history lasts from the late sixth century bce until the first century bce.

What sources exist for reconstructing the history of Judah in the late sixth and fifth centuries BCE? How do they help scholars to understand the time period better? What limitations do they have?

The Second Temple's foundations were apparently the same size as those of Solomon's Temple.

There may be a link between the book of Malachi and the book of:

According to our sources, the returning exiles and those who had stayed in the land held differing viewpoints on how to proceed with the reconstruction of Israel. What were these differences? How were they reconciled?

Themes from the book of ______________, like the a plague of locusts, reappear in later apocalyptic literature of the New Testament.

Ezra 4.8-6.18 are written in the __________ language.

According to Ezra, the first step in reestablishing proper worship was:

Why was intermarriage such a serious issue for Ezra and Nehemiah? What precedents did they have for prohibiting intermarriage?

Aramaic is a(n) _____________ language that is closely related to Hebrew.

Nehemiah had held an important position as the king of Persia's:

Ezra was a governor over the province of Judea.

All are true of Third Isaiah except: