Assyrians
Name of the Assyrian text that parallels Deuteronomy's instructions for what to do if someone you know wants to worship another god
Esarhaddon Succession Treaty
Babylonian king responsible for the destruction of the first Temple
Nebuchadnezzar
Persian king credited with allowing Judahites to return to Jerusalem
Curys
Hellenism
What concrete example does Nehemiah cite as a way that intermarriage is culturally destructive?
children of intermarried parents do not speak Judean
What Assyrian king's birth story is similar to the birth story of Moses in Exodus 2?
Sargon
How did Ezekiel interpret the destruction of God's house (the Temple)?
God left the Temple before the Babylonians destroyed it
True/false:
Archaeological evidence indicates that a large number of people arrived in Jerusalem during the Persian period
False
2 large kingdoms cut from Alexander's empire
Bonus: 2 small kingdoms
Seleucids, Ptolomies
Antagonids, Attalids
What does Mordecai's new decree say?
The Jews are allowed to fight back against their attackers
Judahite king who claimed to discover a lost ancient scroll, initiating reforms in the Temple
Josiah
What are the 4 sources, according the Documentary hypothesis?
Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly, Deuteronomist
What was the anxiety that led to women being prohibited from sexual activity apart from one husband
unclear paternity was a challenge for inheritance
According to the Letter of Aristeas, how many scholars independently translated the Torah into Greek?
72
Site of the dramatic encounter between Ruth and Boaz, where they end up spending the night together
threshing room floor
Assyrian king who first invaded Israel and took over northern territory
Tiglath-Pileser
Main scholar associated with the documentary hypothesis
Julius Wellhausen
Letters from this island in the Nile river include correspondence between local Jewish leaders and Jewish leaders in Jerusalem and Samaria
Bonus: what did the letter ask?
Elephantine
Roman-period author who wrote a historical account of the Jewish rebellion against Rome, and also described the 3 sects of Judaism
Bonus: names of the sects he described
Josephus
Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes
What task does God assign to the first humans?
To rule over all other created things
According to the Assyrian king's chronicle, an Israelite king was said to have been locked like a bird in a cage. Who was the Assyrian king, and who was the Israelite king?
Bonus: how does the Bible recount this event?
Senacherib
Hezekiah
Story 1: Hezekiah bribed Senacherib to leave
Story 2: Hezekiah prayed and an angel killed the Assyrian soldiers outside Jerusalem; the rest left
2 pre-19th-century writers who questioned the tradition that Moses wrote the Torah
Abraham Ibn Ezra
Baruch Spinoza
Which prophetic book imagines a glorified future revival of Jerusalem?
Isaiah
What type of script did the Hasmonean dynasty revive?
Paleo-Hebrew
In the Book of Nehemiah, After Ezra reads from the Torah scroll, the people celebrate the holiday of _____ as it had not been celebrated since the time of _______.
Sukkot/booths/Taberncales
Joshua