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| What types of reform does King Josiah lead and Inspire? |
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| He leads to a renewal of the covenant, cellbration of th ePassover: he destroys pagan altars and executes pagan priests and prostitutes. he recalimed territory lost to Judah and he inspires Dueteronomists to edits Israels texts of its hsitory before during and after the exile. |
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| what people does Zephaniah say will become the remnant, through whom Go will build a new Israel? |
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| The unforetuate and impoverished, the "humble of the land" |
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| What kind of questioning did the Book of Habukkuk introduce? |
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| The questioning of God: Why if God is present, does he seem not to be? Why does God not stop evil? |
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| What is Jeremiah's reaction to God calling him to be a prophet? |
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| He is frightened and not eager. He say's, I am too young!" God tells ihm not to be afraid |
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| Why are the Judahites so confident in ignoring Jeremiah's messaged that the time of disaster is coming? |
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| The convinced them selved that God would not allow Jerusalem to be overcome because the Temple was there. In the past an angel of the Lord mysteriously defeated the Assyrians, God pledged that he would be with David's royal line forever. |
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| What aspects of Jesus'life and ministery reminded the early Christians of Jeremiah? |
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| Jesus's sufferings. Jesus, like J. was sent to teach God's way but he was p[lotted against, and entrapped by his enemies. He flet abandoned by God |
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| What is Jeremiah's message to the people after the first exile? |
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| "Do not resist Babylon. Go willingly into exile and make the most of this sad venture. It will be a time for something new to happen in you. |
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| How did the new covenant differ from the old covenant? |
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| It will be written on the people's hearts not stone tablets. Each one will know what God wants from deep within. |
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| What happened in Jerusalem and its people in 587 BC? |
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| Babylon returned, breached its walls, destroyed the Temple, many were carried into exile, King Zedikiah was captured and forced to watch his sons slain. |
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| What understanding did later Jews come to have about the failure of Jeremiah's Life? |
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| They saw it, like the sorrow and humiliation of exile, as a seed of hope and transformation |
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| HOw did the Book of Lamentations help Judah |
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| It gave Judah a way to grieve-- recalling its agony, lamenting, and asking for nothing. |
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| Where and when did the prophet or prophets know as second Isaiah live? |
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| In Babylon toward the end of the exile, around 550BC |
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| Where and when did the prophet or prophets know as second Isaiah live? |
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| In Babylon toward the end of the exile, around 550BC |
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| Where and when did the prophet or prophets know as second Isaiah live? |
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| In Babylon toward the end of the exile, around 550BC |
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| In what ways was the exile a time of religious renewal for the Jews? What tensions and compromises did they face? |
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| They were not allowed to practice their faith publically, so they carefully preserved the words of the prophets in the Torah. They gathered in community to read Scripture, pray and chant hymns. Also the Sabbath, circumcisionand the kosher diet became more important... through time people thought God forgot themso they varied in their faithfulness and some just blended in totally with Babylonians. |
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| What was Second Isaiah's Challenge? |
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| To raise the hopes of the people for the day when they would return to Jerusalem |
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| Why does the suffering servant suffer? How have Christians understood the image of the suffering servant? |
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| Not as punishment for his own sins, but in order to save the people from theirs. Christians have alseays seen a prophetic image of Christ in the suffering servant. |
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| What images does Isaiah 55 sue to convey hope? |
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| A feast that will satisfy, water that will quench thrist. Also, God promising peace, mountains that break into song, trees that clap their hands, cypresses instec of thornbushes, myrtil insted of nettles. |
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| This king of Persia, called "God's Anointed" overcame the BAbylonians and in 538 BC set the exiles free |
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| This king of Persia, called "God's Anointed" overcame the BAbylonians and in 538 BC set the exiles free |
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| Leaders of a movement that called the people back to the covenant |
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| A collection of five hymns of grief composed shortly after Jerusalems fall |
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| Though its setting is the exile, this book was meant to nurture the faith of later Jews of the Disperson and encourage them to return home |
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| He hears God speak through him that God will replace the peoples' hearts of stone with hearts of flesh |
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| King Josiah's son, a contemptable monarch |
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| The king of Persia, called God's anointed, overcame the Babylonians and in 538 BC set the exiles free |
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| described in second Isaiah, an inocent man who suffers greatly |
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| Chapters 40-55 of Isaiah, which aim to raise the people's hopes |
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