Final Flashcards
(36 cards)
539 BCE
Cyrus decree to build Temple
515 BCE
2nd Temple completed
333 BCE
Alexander the Great defeats Israel
167 BCE
Maccabean Revolt
Ezra (4)
- Scribe in Babylonia
- Student of Torah,
- Commissioned by Artaxerxes:
- Supervise the Temple rebuild.
- Religious reorganization - Law & proper worship
Nehemiah (3)
Cupbearer to Artaxerxes
- Physically rebuild Jerusalem & lead some Israelites home
- The Leaders return
Cyrus the Great
returns the Jews in 539 BCE
Artaxerxes
Sponsors Ezra & Nehemiah
Sheshbazzar
Son of Jehoiachin
Zerubbabel (3)
- Grandson of Jehoiachin
- Rejects Samaritan Aid
- “potentially rebellious” banned building
Maiden “Song of Songs”
Woman
Lover “Song of Songs”
Man
Lady Wisdom
personification of wisdom in Proverbs & Wisdom
Dame Folly
personification of foolishness in Proverbs & Wisdom
Elimelech
Naomi’s husband
Ahasuerus
Median King in the book of Tobit
Seleucus
General who ruled Syria and Palestine after Alexander the Great
Antiochus Epiphanes (3)
- Outlawed Judaism
- Sacrificed Pig
- Built altar to Zeus in Temple
Mattathias
a priest who killed Jewish commissioner for the Greeks. Started Revolt
Judas Maccabeus (3)
- Successor of Mattathias
- defeats Seleucid Army in 167 BCE
- cleanses temple & rebuilds altar
Jonathan Maccabeus (3)
- Successor of Judas
- King & high priest
- starts Hasmonian dynasty
160-37 BCE
Hasmonian Rule
Holofernes
Assyrian general in charge of attack in Judith
Tobit (4)
- Observes the Law
- Anna-wife & Tobias-son
- blinded by sparrow poop
- prays to die