Exam 19: Judah in the Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries BCE: The End of Assyrian Domination and the Fall of Jerusalem

The book of _______________ expresses unmitigated hatred of the Assyrians.

The Babylonians defeated Assyria and ____________ in the battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE.

Josiah was killed by the Assyrians.

Josiah's reform was capped with a national celebration of _______________.

Prophets often communicated their message by performing symbolic actions called _____________________.

The "Babylonian Chronicles" are cuneiform tablets that summarize the reigns of important rulers of the ancient Near East in the late seventh and sixth centuries bce.

How is the royal ideology depicted in Jeremiah and 2 Kings 23.31-25.30? What role did the royal ideology play in the fall of Jerusalem?

The ______________________ are personal laments that illustrate the prophet's unhappiness with the message he was commissioned to deliver.

The book of ______________ opens with hymnic praise of Yahweh as the divine warrior whose dramatic theophany affects the entire cosmos.

The principal catalyst for Assyria's demise was the death of ______________.

Later tradition identifies Jeremiah as the author of the book of:

Jehoiachin's father was:

Josiah's immediate predecessor as king of Israel was:

Although _______________ was the last Davidic king to rule Judah, the Deuteronomistic History ends with a report of his predecessor.

According to Jeremiah, _______________ was unconcerned when he heard the prophet's words and burned the scroll recording them.

Jerusalem fell in the year _____________ bce.

The prophet _______________ appears in the apocryphal addition to the book of Daniel called "Bel and the Dragon."

Jeremiah's scribe was:

Zephaniah juxtaposes Israel and Nineveh as objects of God's wrath.

Nebuchadrezzar appointed Mattaniah as king of Judah in 597 BCE and renamed him Zephaniah.