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Select the correct book title from those studied in this lesson to fill out each sentence and place it in the appropriate box.

            Proverbs             Ecclesiastes               Daniel           I Maccabees               II Maccabees

1. The canonical book ____ supported the conventional philosophy of the Israelites and most cultures in the wider ANE that gods reward their righteous human servants with health, wealth, and long life.

2. The canonical book   __ challenged prophetic views of history, such as those propagated in the Former and Latter Prophets, by denying that God rewards or punishes human behaviors in any comprehensible way.

3-4. ____ and ____ diverged from traditional Israelite and Jewish views by proposing that divine rewards and punishments for covenantal fidelity and infidelity were postponed until after death.

5. The author of ____ assimilated several Classical Greek philosophies, including Stoicism, Skepticism, and Determinism into his arguments on the topic of divine justice.

6. Wisdom is shown as Yahweh’s partner, “his darling and delight,” during the creation of the world in _____.

7. ____ expressed a linear timeline that moved from the Babylonian Exile through a series of dominate cultures toward a final divine judgment of and retribution, which were expected in the redactor’s own time.

8. Chapters 7-12 of ____ are in the literary form of apocalyptic vision reports.

9. ____ was written as an ethnic myth to propagate support for the Hasmonean Dynasty.

10. ____ is an anthology of instructional pamphlets and manuals that derived from various sages and sources across a 500 year period in the first millennium BCE.

11.   The book of ____ is in the literary genre of pathetic histories.

12. The “abomination of desolation” in ____refers to the sacrificial offering of a pig in the Jewish Temple in honor of the god Zeus incarnate in Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Explanation / Answer

1. The canonical book Proverbs supported the conventional philosophy of the Israelites and most cultures in the wider ANE that gods reward their righteous human servants with health, wealth, and long life.

2. The canonical book Ecclesiastes challenged prophetic views of history, such as those propagated in the Former and Latter Prophets, by denying that God rewards or punishes human behaviors in any comprehensible way.

3-4. Proverbs and Daniel diverged from traditional Israelite and Jewish views by proposing that divine rewards and punishments for covenantal fidelity and infidelity were postponed until after death.

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