Exam 20: After the Fall: Jews in Judah and Babylon

All are examples of dirges, except:

It appears that the Deuteronomistic school heavily edited the book of Ezekiel.

The basic genre of the book of Lamentations is the _________________.

All were produced or edited by the survivors of the Babylonian destruction who remained in the land of Judah except:

In Ezekiel's inaugural vision, he observes a _____________ coming from the north.

Ezekiel's contemporary was:

The city of ___________ was never captured by the Babylonians.

Ezekiel cites a lack of social justice as the main reason for Jerusalem's destruction.

Before becoming a prophet, Ezekiel earned his living as a:

Yahweh appears as a violent husband in the book of ___________.

______________ stresses the importance of memory as an answer to the crisis of exile.

"The day of Yahweh," when Yahweh appears as the divine warrior who has come to fight against his enemies, including Israel, appears in all of the following books except:

Each of the following texts contains acrostic poems except:

A(n) __________ is a poem in which the first letters of successive lines form a word or pattern.

The notion of an "empty land" following the Babylonian destruction was created by the survivors living in ______________.

Ezekiel spent his entire prophetic career in exile.

What are some of the fundamental differences between Ezekiel's prophecies and those of earlier prophets? What themes are unique to his visions? How are his stylistic differences important to his overall message?

What connection do scholars posit between Ezekiel and priestly circles in Jerusalem? Describe the various ties between Ezekiel and the P(riestly) source of the Pentateuch. Do the prophet's priestly affinities cause him to overlook wrongdoings in the Jerusalem priesthood?

According to Ezekiel, after the priests, the _____________ is given land closest to the sanctuary in the New Jerusalem.

In what ways was the Babylonian exile a transformative period for ancient Judeans' religious practices, national identity, and use of text?