Prophets And Prophecy Final Exam

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Ashurbanipal

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succeeded his father Esarhadon in 669 BC. he achieved the greatest territorial expansion of the Assyrian empire which included Babylonia, Persia, Syria, and Egypt, although Egypt was soon lost as a result of a revolt

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Esarhaddon

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king of Assur; reconquered Egypt

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Manasseh

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the only son and successor of Hezekiah on the throne of Judah

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Josiah

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king of Judah who instituted major reforms; his highest priest found the original pentateuch written by moses.

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Day of Yahweh

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the final and supreme day of Yahweh's enthronement

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Zephaniah

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Minor prophet with unusual genealogy, major theme was Day of Yahweh

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Nahum

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book is a message of destruction for Nineveh

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Acrostic

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a poem or other form of writing in alphabetic script in which the first letter syllable or word of each line paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message

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Habakkuk

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asked God why he is silent when there is injust actions; Theodicy

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Carchemish

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place where battle between the allied armies of Egypt and Assyria against Babylonia

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Shemaiah

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preventing Rehoboam from war with Jeroboam

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Hilkiah

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a high priest during the reign of King Josiah who discovered the book of the law while the temple was being renovated, father of Jeremiah

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Shaphan

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a scribe of king Josiah analyzed a copy of the law given by Hilkiah grandson is Gedaliah

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Anathoth

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birthplace of Jeremiah; one of the cities of refuge after destruction if Jerusalem

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Hananiah

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a false prophet contemporary with Jeremiah

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Zedekiah

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Jeremiah was counselor but disobeyed the Lord by rebelling against Babylon and entered into an alliance with Hophra king of Egypt, which brought Nebuchadrezzar against Jerusalem

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Abiathar

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appointed high priest when David became king of Judah, banished to home in Anathoth by solomon because tried to raise Adonijah to the throne

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Baruch

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wrote under the dictation of Jeremiah the oracle foretelling the return of the babylonians and read them at the risk of his life in the hearing of the Jewish people. He wrote also the second and enlarged edition of the prophecies of Jeremiah after the first had been burned by Jehoiakim

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Vorlage

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the text before a translator

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Jehoiakim

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king of judah burned the manuscript of one of the prophecies of Jeremiah, allegiance to Egypt caused the fall of Jerusalem

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Jehoiachin

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was taken captive by the Babylonians and lived in exile in Babylonia later freed

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Nebuchadrezzar

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king of Chaledea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia

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Edict of Cyrus

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allows Judeans to return to Jerusalem under the leadership of Zerubabel

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Ishmael

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Eldest son of Abraham used to symbolize the older now rejected Judiac tradition

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Gedaliah

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was governor after jeremiah assassinated in the movement

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Obadiah

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means "servant of Jehovah" wrote shortest book in the Old Testament. The main theme is the ultimate victory of the people of God if they maintain their faith. Edom is usedas an example of failure to manifest love toward one's neighboor in times of need, and the eventful victory of Israel is declared in a vision of the future

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Diaspora

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when a certain group who lives in the certain area is spread all over the place

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Syncretism

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fusion of differing systems of belief

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Zerubbabel

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Grandson of Jehoiachin; after edict given, supposed to restore monarch in Judah but it never happens

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Kabod

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honor and respect

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P

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Priestly Source

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Merkaba

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the divine chariot throne

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Gog

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a Reubenite, the father of Shimei

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Magog

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second of the seven sons of Japheth

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Zadok

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hebrew meaning "righteous"- he was an Israelite high priest in the tenth century BC

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Sons of Zadok

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Onias III, Jason

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Apostrophe

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arm of Yahweh

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Theogony

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the study of origins and genealogy of the gods

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Enuma Elish

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the babylonian creation myth

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Akitu Festival

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Priest strikes on cheek, plucks beard

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Parousia

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the second coming of Christ

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Servant Songs

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a prophecy of the Incarnate Christ

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Second Isaiah/Dtr Isaiah

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40-55 of the biblical book of Isaiah

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Satrapy

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name given to the governors of the provinces of ancient median and Persian empires

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Yehud

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a city in the center district of Israel

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Achaemenid

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the first Persian empires that ruled over significant portions of greater Iran, and followed the Iranian median empire

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Ezra

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a Jewish priest an scribe sent by the Persian king to restore Jewish law and Worship in Jerusalem

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Nehemiah

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jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid 5th century bc after his relase from captivity by the persian king Artaxerxes I . He also instituted extensive moral and liturgical reforms in rededicating Jews to Yahweh

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Urim/Thummim

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phrase from the hebrew bible associated with the Hosen (high priest breast plate) divination in general, and cleromancy in particular. Most scholars suspect that the phrase refers to specific objects involved in the divination

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Chronicler

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writer of I and II Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah

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Sheshbazzar

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the same person as Zerubbabel, governor of judah

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Zerubbabel

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a govenor of judah and the grandson of Jehoiachin penultimate king of Judah. Zerubbabel led the first band of Jews

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Josephus

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a first century jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. His works give an important insight into first century Judiasm

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Trito- Isaiah

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the third book of Isaiah

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Apocalypse

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term meaning the end; God destroys the ruling power of evil

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Day of Yahweh

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a day of final judgement

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Jonah ben-Amittai

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8th century prophet. His prophecy shows him to be a prophet of salvation for Israel and by implication one of the judgement for the nations. The tale of this prophet has a ring of the "once upon a time" about it