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| This prophets sympathy for the poor came from his own experience of poverty |
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| The greatest of Judah's prophets, this wel-educated person had a vision of God in the Temple at Jerusalem |
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| AS king of Judah, he destroyed the pagan shrines his father, Ahaz, erected and insisted that sacrifices be made in teh Jerusalm Temple only |
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| t/f: Josiah's reforms help slow down Judah's slide to ruin. |
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Manassseh, son of Hezekiah,
a) continues his father's reforms; b)bows to the Assyrian gods; c0 is the grandfather of Josiah, one of Judah's greatest reformers; d0 both b and c |
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| Nahum a0 calls Judah to repentance; b) calls Judah to hope; c) prophesies that God will use BAbylon to purify Judah; d) predicts that Judah will become corrept again |
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| t/f: The author of Chronicles was not concerned with israel's scandals |
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| t/f: Third Isaiah sees things going rapidly downhill after the exiles return |
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| t/f: By 164 BC the Jews had taken control of the Jerusalem Temple |
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| The two books of Chronicles were written: a) before the exile; b0 during the exile; c0 after the rebuilding of the Temple; d0 a century before Jesus' birth |
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| c) after the rebuilding of the Temple |
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| Nehemiah: a) selaed Jerusalem's gates during the Sabbath; b) had the Jew who had married foreign women beaten; c) banished unfaithful Jews from the city; d) both a and b |
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| The dilemma of why the good suffer and the wicked prosper in this life |
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| JOnah is ______ when God forgives the Ninevites: a) pleased; b) angry; c0 vindicated; d) not at all concerned |
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| What literary devise is typically used in biblical wisdom sayings: a) stating the samet/f wise truth in two ways; b) alliteration; c) irony; d) analogy |
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| a) state the same wise truth in two ways |
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| t/f: Jonah is eager to carry out his mission of prophesying to the Ninevites |
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| The goal of the biblical teachers of wisdom was to : a) make Jews the most knowledgeable of all peoples; b) inspire moral integrity; c) cultivate judges for Judea; d)both a and c |
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| b) inspire moral integrity |
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| t/f: Psalms have been central to Jewish worship since biblical times, but did not become important to Christian worship until about the Middle Ages |
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| t/f: Many Psalms express more than one sentiment, but most psalms focus predominantly on one sentiment. |
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| t/f: The Psalms were originally set ot music and meant to be sung in public worship, in some cases along with certain liturgical actions |
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| t/f: to feel negative emotions and bring them to God is as sinful as acting on those emotions |
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| How many Psalms are in the Book of Psalms? a) 50; b) 100; c) 150; d) 200 |
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