Deck 18: The Southern Kingdom of Judah in the Eighth and Early Seventh Centuries BCE

Question 1

The biblical writers who discuss this period in Israelite history describe Hezekiah's reign as pivotal. Why was Hezekiah important both for the history of Israel and to the biblical writers who mention him?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How do archaeological remains inform our understanding of Sennacherib's invasion of Israel? What gaps in the literary and historical record does archaeology fill?

Answer 2

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Question 3

Compare the contemporary prophets Isaiah and Micah. To whom do they prophesy and in what contexts? What messages do these prophets convey? Discuss any significant similarities and differences in their messages.

Answer 3

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Question 4

What was the Isaianic school and what evidence led scholars to posit its existence? How does the notion of an Isaianic school help us to better understand the book of Isaiah?

Question 5

Isaiah and Micah were both southern prophets.

Question 6

The Syro-Ephraimite War is not mentioned in biblical texts.

Question 7

Isaiah was apparently a court prophet for kings Hezekiah and Manasseh.

Question 8

Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem was a part of the same campaign that destroyed Samaria.

Question 9

Every prophecy in the book of Micah likely originated with the eighth century prophet.

Question 10

The Lachish reliefs depict scenes from the siege of Jerusalem.

Question 11

Isaiah's inaugural vision is of a meeting of the divine council.

Question 12

Many scholars believe that the book of Micah was expanded to refer to the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem in the fifth century BCE.

Question 13

Sennacherib besieged 46 fortified cities in Judea.

Question 14

The Deuteronomistic school was an apparent influence on Isaiah.

Question 15

Isaiah was from:

A) Samaria
B) Bethel
C) Lachish
D) Jerusalem

Question 16

Scholars attribute the composition of Second Isaiah and revisions of Isaiah to the:

A) Deuteronomistic historians
B) School of Isaiah
C) scribal class
D) Levites

Question 17

The Syro-Ephraimite War occurred in:

A) 701 bce
B) 722 bce
C) 734 bce
D) 750 bce

Question 18

Hezekiah's predecessor Ahaz relied on _______________ to defend Jerusalem during the Syro-Ephraimite War.

A) Assyria
B) Egypt
C) Yahweh
D) his military

Question 19

Sennacherib's palace in Assyria was located at:

A) Lachish
B) Babylon
C) Sidon
D) Nineveh

Question 20

The prophetic sign of a pregnant woman who bears a son named Immanuel is given to _______________ to assure him to trust in Yahweh.

A) Ahaz
B) Pekah
C) Hoshea
D) Hezekiah

Question 21

Second Isaiah probably dates to the ___________ century bce.

A) eighth
B) seventh
C) sixth
D) fifth

Question 22

Micah employs all of the following genres except:

A) theophany
B) genealogy
C) lawsuit
D) lament

Question 23

During the siege of Jerusalem, Sennacherib made this city his base:

A) Ekron
B) Beersheba
C) Lachish
D) Joppa

Question 24

All were apparently children of Isaiah except:

A) Nathan
B) Immanuel
C) Maher-shalal-hash-baz
D) Shear-jashub

Question 25

The Babylonian usurper Marduk-apla-iddina is referred to in the Bible as:

A) Maher-shalal-hash-baz
B) Tiglath-pileser
C) Merodach-baladan
D) Ashur-dan

Question 26

The _____________ is a mythological account of the divine judgment of the end-time.

A) two-campaign hypothesis
B) Isaiah Apocalypse
C) covenant lawsuit
D) Rassam Cylinder

Question 27

Interpreters have identified Immanuel with all of the following except:

A) Moses
B) Jesus
C) Isaiah's son
D) Hezekiah

Question 28

Nineveh was captured by the Babylonians in the year:

A) 689 bce
B) 612 bce
C) 586 bce
D) 562 bce

Question 29

Micah suggests that a new ruler will rise from the city of:

A) Jerusalem
B) Samaria
C) Beersheba
D) Bethlehem

Question 30

Hezekiah's tunnel was supposed to divert the water from:

A) the Gihon Spring
B) the Jordan River
C) the Siloam Pool
D) Jacob's well

Question 31

Micah's hometown was ________________.

A) Bethel
B) Bethlehem
C) Moresheth-gath
D) Lachish

Question 32

Ahaz was all of the following except:

A) an Assyrian vassal
B) king of Judah
C) the son of Tabeel
D) an enemy of Aram and Israel

Question 33

Both Isaiah and Micah prophesied during the reigns of every king except:

A) Jotham
B) Ahaz
C) Hezekiah
D) Manasseh

Question 34

Every source neglects to mention Hezekiah's payment of tribute to Sennacherib except:

A) Isaiah
B) the A-source
C) the B-source
D) 2 Chronicles 32

Question 35

In the ________________, Sennacherib gives his own account of the campaign through the Levant.

Question 36

The prophet _____________________ directly quotes Micah's judgment on Jerusalem.

Question 37

The prophet Micah is from the town of _____________________.

Question 38

Hezekiah's tunnel is also called ________________________.

Question 39

_____________ was a nineteenth-century ce scholar who saw problems with the unity of Isaiah.

Question 40

The _______________________ is the term for the expanded area of Jerusalem beyond the fortified limits of the city of David where many refugees from the northern kingdom of Israel settled after its destruction in 722 bce.

Question 41

_________________ paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser in 734 BCE.

Question 42

The name "Immanuel" means ___________________.

Question 43

The siege of Jerusalem by the kings of ____________ and ____________ happened during the Syro-Ephraimite War.

Question 44

Chapters 56-66 of Isaiah are referred to as ______________________.