People who enjoy pleasure for pleasures sake.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

"songs"

Song of Solomon

Principle Deity of Babylon

Hebrew name for Ecclesiastes

Pen name for author who wrote the book

One who speak in an assembly

1. international contacts - sharing of wisdom.

2. economic stability

3. Israel was not at war. 

1. Cohen - Priest; taught and interpreted law.

2. Nabi - Prophet; spoke for God. 

3. Hakham - Sage; gave practical advice

1. Brevity

2. Intelligible

3. Flavor - memorable

4. Popularity

1. International in scope

2. Individual stressed

3. little history/theology

4. retribution for evil in this life

5. Yirat Adonai - Fear of the LORD

6. Not just factual knowledge; "know-how"

1. Obedience to parents

2. Watch out for evil company

3. Slothfulness

4. Intemperance. 

5. Contention. 

1. Peti - simple/open to learning

2. Thick - impenetrable

3. Arrogant - "Letz"; scoffer, scorner, skeptic. 

"vanity"

key word in Ecclesiastes. 

A - Prose Prologe, tells of Jobs life. 

B - cycles of addressed between friends and Job. 

A - Prose Epilogue

1. weeping

2. tearing of clothes

3. sitting on the ground

4. silence - grieving person speaks first

"The Mystic"

"The Traditionalist"

appeals to scholarship of the past 

"The Authoritarian"

Appeals to common sense. 

Kingdom splits between Israel and Ephraim

1. Uzziah - good ruler. burns incense in temple (priests job) and gets leprosy.

2. Hezekiah - withstood Assyrian invasion.  Reinstituted the passover.

3. Josiah - book of law revitalized. Tries to stop Pharaoh Neco. 

Worst King.

Arch Idolater of Jewish history. 

1. Egyptian plagues- idolatry of Egypt

2.  Elijah and Elisha - against Ball and Ashera

3. Daniel - pagan Babylon

1. Ahab

2. Jehu - puts an end to Baal worship

1. Assyria

2. Babylon

3. Persia

4. Greece

5. Rome

Overthrow of Jerusalem and collapse of S. Kingdom

Most important date in course. 

605 B.C.

Babylon defeats the rest of the Assyrian empire and defeats the Egyptian forces of Pharaoh Neco. 

Babylon takes over a leading power in Near East. 

steadfast/loyal/covenant love

1. Hosea - covenant love

2. Jonah - international love. 

3.  Amos - social justice prophet

1. Joel - Day of the Lord

2. Habbakuk - questions God. Vindication or justification of God in the face of evil. 

3. Micah - 6:8 - justice, loving-kindness, walk with carefulness, modesty. 

4. Jeremiah -  weeping prophet

5. Ezekiel - ministered to captives in Babylon. Dry Bones

6.  Daniel - apocalypic lit.

1. house of study

2. house of prayer

3. house of serving