#. (12.1) List the correct Persian ruler to the dates of his reign:
(1) 538-530 B.C.E.: ____________________________(2) 530-522 B.C.E.: ____________________________
(3) 522-486 B.C.E.: ____________________________
#. (12.2)
Match
the correct description of a return trip to its leader.
| _ _ (1) Sheshbazzar | a) most influential leader from 458 B.C.E. |
| ___ (2) Zerubbabel | b) laid foundations for the temple with return in 538 B.C.E. |
| ___ (3) Ezra | c) a cupbearer to Artaxerxes I who returned in 445 B.C.E. |
| ___ (4) Nehemiah | d) finished temple after return in 520 B.C.E. |
#. (12.2)
Match the correct date of a return trip to its leader.
| _ _ (1) Ezra | a) 538 B.C.E. |
| ___ (2) Nehemiah | b) 520 B.C.E. |
| ___ (3) Sheshbazzar | c)458 B.C.E. |
| ___ (4) Zerubbabel | d) 445 B.C.E. |
#. (12.2) Match the leader of one of
the returning groups of Jewish exiles to the reign of the correct Persian
ruler:
a) Cyrus the Great
b) Cambyses
c) Darius I
d) Artaxerxes I
e) Artaxerxes II
| ____ (1) Sheshbazzar | ____ (2) Zerubbabel | ____ (3) Ezra | ____ (4) Nehemiah |
____ #. (12.2.1) The Persian
ruler who issued the decree in 538 B.C.E. allowing Jewish people to return
to their homeland was
| a) Cyrus the Great 550-530 | b) Cambyses 530-522 | c) Darius I 522-486 |
____ #. (12.2.1) The decree
by the Persian ruler allowing the Jews to return to Palestine represented
a special privilege given only to the Jewish people, and not to other conquered
peoples.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.1) Which of the
three major ancient empires demonstrated the most humane treatment toward
conquered peoples?
| a) Assyrians | b) Babylonians | c) Persians |
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.2) Living conditions
were so much nicer in Babylon than in Jerusalem that many Jewish exiles
chose to remain in Babylon rather than return home to Jerusalem.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.2) The high priest
who accompanied Zerubbabel back to Jerusalem in 520 B.C.E. was
| a) Elijah | b) Joshua | c) Ezra |
____ #. (12.4.2.2) The uniform
attitude toward other groups in Palestine by the various Jewish leaders
who returned to Jerusalem was
a) they needed everyone’s help in rebuilding the temple and the city.
b) only the “pure Jew” could take part in the rebuilding work.
c) they didn’t care whether anyone else got involved in the rebuilding work or not.
____ #. (12.2.2.1) The prophet
Haggai’s message encouraging the rebuilding of the temple was delivered
to the people in Jerusalem during the leadership of
| a) Sheshbazzar | b) Zerubbabel | c) Ezra | d) Nehemiah |
____ #. (12.2.2.1.1) The prophet
Haggai commended the returning exiles for first rebuilding their own homes
before giving attention to rebuilding the temple for worship in Jerusalem.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.2.2) Unlike Haggai
who emphasized the practical issues of the present, Zechariah’s message
focused on future events.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.2.2) Zechariah
was an apocalyptic oriented prophet.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.2.2) The prophet
Zechariah delivered oracles to the people (chapters 1-8) to rebuild the
temple during the leadership of
| a) Sheshbazzar | b) Zerubbabel | c) Ezra | d) Nehemiah |
____ #. (12.2.2.2) Zechariah
chapters 9-14 belong to a much later period of time than chapters 1-8.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.2.2.3) The two prophets,
Haggai and Zechariah, along with Zerubbabel and Joshua inspired the people
to return to the Temple building with vigor.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.4.1) In the person
of Ezra, we meet perhaps the most influential person in the post-exilic
Jewish community.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.4.1) The “Father
of Judaism” is
| a) Haggai | b) Ezra | c) Nehemiah |
____ #. (12.4.1) After the exile
the most dominant figure in Jewish life was the priest, rather than the
king or the prophet.
| a) True | b) False |
| a) 458 B.C.E. | b) 397 B.C.E. | c) 428 B.C.E. |
____ #. (12.4.1.2.1.1) One of
Ezra’s first reforms was to demand that Jewish men divorce their non-Jewish
wives.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.4.1.2.1.1) Which
is the correct Christian interpretation of Ezra 10:9-17?
10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain. 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. 10:11 Now then make confession to the LORD the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.” 10:12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so, we must do as you have said. 10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain, we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a work for one day or for two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. 10:14 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly; let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, till the fierce wrath of our God over this matter be averted from us.” 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshul’lum and Shab’bethai the Levite supported them.
10:16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter; 10:17 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
a) Quite clearly Christians should not marry persons of another race since the Old Testament is equally binding on Christians as is the New Testament.
b) The passage has no application to Christians since they live under the principles of the New Testament, not those in the Hebrew Bible.
c) New Testament concepts such as those in Gal. 3:28 asserting that Christ has abolished racial distinctions replace that found in the above Ezra text.
____ #. (12.4.1.2.1.2)
When the Torah was read to the people in Hebrew in Ezra 8:1-7, it had to
be translated into ____ because the people no longer spoke Hebrew.
| a) Aramaic | b) Greek | c) Latin |
____ #. (12.4.2.1) Nehemiah
who lead a group back to Jerusalem was a priest like Ezra.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (12.4.2.2) Nehemiah’s
rebuilding work concentrated on the
| a) temple | b) walls of the city | c) fortresses |
____ #. (12.4.2.3) Nehemiah
had ____ term(s) as governor over Jerusalem.
| a) one | b) two | c) three |
____ #. (12.4.2.3) On his second
trip back to Jerusalem Nehemiah had to throw _____, the Ammonite, out of
the room he had moved into in temple in Jerusalem.
| a) Sanballat | b) Tobiah | c) Geshem |
____ #. (12.4.2.3) A seven light
candlestick is known in Judaism as the Menorah.
| a) True | b) False |