Deck 19: Judah in the Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries BCE: The End of Assyrian Domination and the Fall of Jerusalem

Question 1

The book of Kings paints a very negative picture of Manasseh. Could this assessment be accurate? How would you characterize the reign of Manasseh?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is the relationship between the book of Jeremiah and the Deuteronomic school? How does this compare to the relationship between the Deuteronomic school and other prophetic writings?

Answer 2

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Question 3

How is the royal ideology depicted in Jeremiah and 2 Kings 23.31-25.30? What role did the royal ideology play in the fall of Jerusalem?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Much of the Deuteronomistic historians' account of Josiah is highly idealized. What can be said about the historical Josiah? Does he deserve such praise from the historians? Why are he and his great-grandfather, Hezekiah, so important to the historians?

Question 5

Assyria and Nineveh were ultimately destroyed by the Egyptians.

Question 6

The "Babylonian Chronicles" are cuneiform tablets that summarize the reigns of important rulers of the ancient Near East in the late seventh and sixth centuries bce.

Question 7

At its peak, the Assyrian empire controlled all of the Near East with the exception of Babylon.

Question 8

Manasseh is the worst king of Judah according to the Deuteronomistic Historians.

Question 9

Nebuchadrezzar appointed Mattaniah as king of Judah in 597 BCE and renamed him Zephaniah.

Question 10

Josiah was killed by the Assyrians.

Question 11

Zephaniah juxtaposes Israel and Nineveh as objects of God's wrath.

Question 12

The book of Habakkuk describes the triumph of Yahweh as the divine warrior in mythological language reminiscent of Exodus 15 and Judges 5.

Question 13

The book of Habakkuk provides no information about the prophet's life.

Question 14

The Lachish letters were nearly two dozen inscribed potsherds or ostraca.

Question 15

Josiah's immediate predecessor as king of Israel was:

A) Hezekiah
B) Manasseh
C) Amon
D) Jehoahaz

Question 16

The Deuteronomistic Historians condemn Manasseh mainly because of his:

A) apostasy
B) tribute to Assyria
C) taxation
D) foreign birth

Question 17

The Temple scroll discovered during the reign of Josiah is often identified as:

A) Exodus
B) Leviticus
C) Numbers
D) Deuteronomy

Question 18

The Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem was:

A) Nabo-polassar
B) Nebuchadrezzer II
C) Evil-merodach
D) Neco

Question 19

Jehoiachin's father was:

A) Manasseh
B) Josiah
C) Jehoahaz
D) Jehoiakim

Question 20

Many battles have been fought in the biblical city of _________________, and so the book of Revelation identifies it as the site of the future final battle between the forces of good and evil.

A) Jerusalem
B) Jericho
C) Megiddo
D) Lachish

Question 21

Another name for the Babylonians is:

A) Chaldeans
B) Assyrians
C) Medes
D) Elamites

Question 22

The nation that filled the Near Eastern power vacuum after Assyria's defeat was:

A) Egypt
B) Media
C) Babylonia
D) Aram

Question 23

Josiah's immediate successor was:

A) Jehoiakim
B) Amon
C) Neco
D) Jehoahaz

Question 24

The book of _______________ expresses unmitigated hatred of the Assyrians.

A) Zephaniah
B) Nahum
C) Habakkuk
D) Jeremiah

Question 25

Jeremiah's scribe was:

A) Baruch
B) Ezra
C) Habakkuk
D) Nehemiah

Question 26

Although _______________ was the last Davidic king to rule Judah, the Deuteronomistic History ends with a report of his predecessor.

A) Jehoahaz
B) Jehoiakim
C) Jehoiachin
D) Zedekiah

Question 27

_________________ was a general who had assumed the throne of Babylon in 626 BCE.

A) Nabo-polassar
B) Nebuchadrezzar II
C) Amel-Marduk
D) Neco

Question 28

According to Jeremiah, _______________ was unconcerned when he heard the prophet's words and burned the scroll recording them.

A) Manasseh
B) Jehoahaz
C) Jehoiakim
D) Jehoiachin

Question 29

Zephaniah includes all of the following except:

A) a genealogy
B) a day of the Lord motif
C) judgment oracles
D) a farewell address

Question 30

The prophet ______________ incorrectly predicted that Josiah would die in peace because of his repentance.

A) Nahum
B) Zephaniah
C) Isaiah
D) Huldah

Question 31

Later tradition identifies Jeremiah as the author of the book of:

A) Baruch
B) Ezra
C) Habakkuk
D) Lamentations

Question 32

The Babylonians defeated Assyria and ____________ in the battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE.

A) Aram
B) Edom
C) the Medes
D) Egypt d. Egypt

Question 33

Josiah was killed at:

A) Jerusalem
B) Babylon
C) Megiddo
D) Beersheba

Question 34

All of the following discuss the fall of Jerusalem except:

A) Jeremiah
B) Ezekiel
C) Chronicles
D) Habakkuk

Question 35

Manasseh was the son of ________________.

Question 36

Jehoahaz was deposed after a rule of only three months by_______________.

Question 37

The principal catalyst for Assyria's demise was the death of ______________.

Question 38

Josiah's reform was capped with a national celebration of _______________.

Question 39

______________ was king of Judah in 597 when Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem and exiled several thousand of the elite.

Question 40

The book of ______________ opens with hymnic praise of Yahweh as the divine warrior whose dramatic theophany affects the entire cosmos.

Question 41

Jerusalem fell in the year _____________ bce.

Question 42

The prophet _______________ appears in the apocryphal addition to the book of Daniel called "Bel and the Dragon."

Question 43

The ______________________ are personal laments that illustrate the prophet's unhappiness with the message he was commissioned to deliver.

Question 44

Prophets often communicated their message by performing symbolic actions called _____________________.