Test Bank Docx Chapter.21 Return From Exile

Chapter 21: Return from Exile

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 01

1. What are the major themes found in Second Isaiah? How do these themes reflect the realities or expectations of exilic Israel?

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 02

2. How did the Priestly and Deuteronomistic writers interpret the exile? What was God’s role in these events according to these sources?

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 03

3. What is canonical criticism? How did it develop? How has it been used to shed light on the book of Isaiah?

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 04

4. Trace the development of monotheism from Israel’s earliest texts through Second Isaiah. What historical factors played a role in its development?

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 01

1. After succeeding his father Labashi-Marduk to the throne, Nabonidus became the last king of Babylon.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 02

2. The Persians controlled Judah for over two centuries.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 03

3. Zerubbabel was a descendant of David.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 04

4. The “Cyrus Cylinder” portrays Cyrus as chosen by Marduk to conquer and rule Babylon.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 05

5. The P source interprets the Babylonian exile as justified punishment for Israel’s disobedience.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 06

6. Second Isaiah describes the return from Babylon as a “new Exodus.”

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 07

7. The D source shows an understanding of Babylonian myths and makes extensive use of them in its texts.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 21 Question 08

8. For the exiles, P’s message was one of hope and optimism.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 21 Question 09

9. In the book of Ezra, Cyrus is commanded by God to release Israel and to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 10

10. Second Isaiah’s references to other gods are more likely to be literary convention than an expression of polytheistic belief.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 01

1. Nebuchadrezzar’s son, ______________, released King Jehoiachin from prison in the first year of his reign.

a. Amel-Marduk

b. Nergal-sharezer

c. Nabonidus

d. Labashi-Marduk

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 02

2. _____________ is presented as the opposite of the pharaoh of the Exodus story:

a. Ezra

b. Nabonidus

c. Cyrus

d. Zerubbabel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 03

3. Under the Persian empire, Judah was known as the province of:

a. Kedar

b. Yehud

c. Israel

d. Palestine

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 04

4. The census in Ezra may be intended to parallel the census in the book of:

a. Exodus

b. Numbers

c. Joshua

d. Judges

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 05

5. During the exilic period, the _____ sources underwent a major development.

a. P and D

b. J and E

c. J and D

d. J and P

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 06

6. The primary source that recounts the return of Israel from Babylon is:

a. Second Isaiah

b. Nehemiah

c. Ezra

d. Daniel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 07

7. In 561 bce _________ was released from a Babylonian prison, possibly reviving hopes in the restoration of the Davidic dynasty.

a. Josiah

b. Jehoiachin

c. Zedekiah

d. Zerubbabel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 08

8. The “Cyrus Cylinder” describes Cyrus in all the following ways, except:

a. lover of Babylon

b. firstborn son of Marduk

c. worshipper of Marduk

d. chosen by Marduk to rule Babylon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 09

9. All of the following are factors that demonstrate that Second Isaiah is later than First Isaiah except:

a. the appearance of Cyrus

b. the use of an anonymous speaker

c. the narrative takes place in Israel

d. the Temple is destroyed

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 10

10. The earliest text in the Bible to make a clear statement on monotheism is:

a. First Isaiah

b. Second Isaiah

c. Ezra

d. Ezekiel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 11

11. In Second Isaiah, the author imagines that the procession out of exile will be led

by:

a. God

b. “the servant”

c. Ezra

d. the prophet himself

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 12

12. The decree in Ezra that permitted the exiles to return home and worship Yahweh has echoes in (the) ___________________.

a. Enuma Elish

b. Rassam Cylinder

c. Cyrus Cylinder

d.Lachish letters

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 13

13. The capital of the Persian empire was:

a. Susa

b. Babylon

c. Persepolis

d. Ecbatana

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 14

14. All are major themes in Second Isaiah except:

a. explicit monotheism

b. the servant of Yahweh

c. exile as “new Exodus”

d. construction of the new Temple

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 15

15. In Second Isaiah, Marduk is often referred to by the title:

a. Nebu

b. Bel

c. El

d. Baal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 16

16. Second Isaiah can probably be dated to the ________ century bce.

a. early sixth

b. mid-sixth

c. late sixth

d. early fifth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 17

17. P suggests the observance of all as a means to preserving religious identity in a foreign land except:

a. sabbath

b. circumcision

c. purity laws

d. dietary laws

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 18

18. The methodology that prioritizes the Bible as a whole—the received text—is known as:

a. reception history

b. textual criticism

c. canonical criticism

d. none of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 19

19. The image of Yahweh as a mother or midwife appears in all of the following except:

a. Ezra

b. Second Isaiah

c. Third Isaiah

d. Psalms

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 21 Question 20

20. All are possible identifications of the servant in Second Isaiah except:

a. an individual

b. a group within Israel

c. Israel

d. the high priest

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 01

1. The period from 586 to 539 bce is known as the _______________ period.

a. exilic

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 02

2. The Persians were a major concern to the Greek historian _______________.

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 03

3. The ______________, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one,” is a monotheistic declaration that is characteristic of Judaism.

a. shema

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 04

4. The “book of the law of Moses” that was brought to Judah by Ezra was probably the _______________.

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 05

5. Isaiah 40–55 are known as ____________________.

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 06

6. The _______ source explains the disasters of 722 and 586 bce as an act of theodicy or divine justice.

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 07

7. The Persian period lasted until the conquests of ______________ in 332 bce.

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 08

8. The return from exile of _______________, a grandson of King Jehoiachin and descendant of David, gave hope to some returnees for a restoration of the Davidic dynasty.

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 09

9. _________________ is the belief in only one god.

a. monotheism

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Title: Chapter 21 Question 10

10. The German scholar Bernhard Durm first identified the ____________________ in Second Isaiah.

a. servant songs or songs of the servant of Yahweh