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

Both Amos and _________ describe a plague of locusts.

All are sources for the postexilic period except:

_____________ is marriage outside of one's group.

The book Joel refers to the priests, the Temple, and the king.

When the exiles returned to Israel, the high priest was:

In Ezra, the governor of the province of "Beyond the River" was ____________.

In the Isaiah Apocalypse, on the day of the Lord Yahweh will finally defeat:

In 538 bce the leader of the returnees from Babylon was _______________.

What is apocalyptic literature? What is its relationship to the phenomenon of prophecy? How are the two similar and different?

All of Haggai's prophetic visions can be dated to the year:

Most scholars agree that Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one unit.

During the first half of the first millennium bce, Aramaic became the lingua franca of the Near East.

Hopes for a restoration of the Davidic dynasty lay with:

Ezra and Nehemiah were both among the first exiles to return to Israel.

The name "Malachi" simply means _______________.

The returnees claimed to have the support of _______________________ in their efforts to rebuild the Temple.

Shinar is another name for Babylon.

The final words of the book of ____________ likely record the ostracizing of Foreign women and their children from the community.

The Second Temple period ended in the year _________.

The Davidic monarchy was apparently restored after the return from exile.