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Return from Exile
Rebuilding the Temple
Return of the Prophets
Post-Exilic Disappointment
Between the Testaments
100
The king who let the Jews return home.
Who is King Cyrus?
100
The reaction of the elders upon seeing the rebuilt temple.
What is weeping?
100
The prophet sent to rebuild the wall.
What is Nehemiah?
100
The people through whom God made staggering promises of Israel's restoration.
What is the prophets?
100
The first pagans the Jews were subject to between the testaments.
What is the Persians?
200
King Cyrus' Kingdom
What is Persia?
200
The reaction to rebuilding the temple
What is local opposition and royal suspicion?
200
The prophet sent to Jerusalem with provisions for the temple.
What is Ezra?
200
The amount years of divine silence.
What is approximately 400 years?
200
The second group of pagans the Jews were subject to between the testaments.
What is the Greek?
300
What King Cyrus issued in 538 B.C.
What is a decree allowing Jews to return home?
300
The year that work began on the temple.
What is second year after their return?
300
The two prophets who instituted reforms among the people.
What is Ezra and Nehemiah?
300
The post exilic reality is exactly what is expected? (True or False)
What is false?
300
The third group of Pagans that the Jews were subject to between the testaments.
What is the Romans?
400
The Jews returned home in this year.
When is 538 B.C.
400
The festival celebrated during the rebuilding.
What is the Passover?
400
The specific reform that Ezra instituted
What is marriage reforms?
400
The main character in the Book of the bible that does not mention God.
What is Esther?
400
Approximately how long the Jews were independent between the testaments.
What is 79 years?
500
The approximate number of Jews who returned to Israel.
What is 50,000?
500
The prophets that oversaw work on the temple resuming.
What is Haggai and Zechariah?
500
The amount of time it took to complete building the city wall.
What is 52 days?
500
Two of the four main areas of promise.
What is Torah, Turf, Throne, or Temple?
500
Four key groups who responded to Hellenism (100 extra points per response that the group had)
What is Sadducees-accept/tragic compromise Pharisee- engage/boundary markers Zealots- violent revolt Essenes- withdrawal