12a Flashcards
In what year did Alexander the Great conquer the Persian empire?
a) 323 BCE
b) 333 BCE
c) 356 BCE
d) 301 BCE
b) 333 BCE
Following the death of Alexander the Great, which general took control of Egypt?
a) Seleucis
b) Lysimachus
c) Cassander
d) Ptolemy
d) Ptolemy
What is Hellenism described as in the text?
a) The religion of ancient Greece
b) The political system of the Seleucid Empire
c) A mixture of Greek culture and language with Near Eastern ideals
d) The economic policies of the Ptolemaic dynasty
c) A mixture of Greek culture and language with Near Eastern ideals
Which language became a common language of communication during the Hellenistic period?
a) Persian
b) Hebrew
c) Aramaic
d) Greek
d) Greek
Who took control of Palestine from the Ptolemies in 198 BCE?
a) The Romans
b) The Maccabees
c) The Seleucids
d) The Egyptians
c) The Seleucids
Which Seleucid ruler aggressively promoted Hellenism in Judea?
a) Seleucus I Nicator
b) Antiochus III the Great
c) Antiochus IV
d) Demetrius I Soter
c) Antiochus IV
What did people call Antiochus IV, which meant “madman”?
a) Epiphanes
b) Epimanes
c) Philopator
d) Soter
b) Epimanes
Who was the legitimate high priest deposed by Antiochus IV?
a) Jason
b) Menelaus
c) Onias III
d) Mattathias
c) Onias III
What did Jason, the high priest installed by Antiochus IV, set up in Jerusalem?
a) A new temple
b) A gymnasium and ephebeion
c) A Roman garrison
d) A large marketplace
b) A gymnasium and ephebeion
What stopped Antiochus IV from his military campaign against Egypt?
a) A revolt in Judea
b) His own army’s mutiny
c) The Romans
d) A plague
c) The Romans
According to 2 Maccabees, approximately how many people were killed in the massacre under Antiochus IV?
a) 10,000
b) 25,000
c) 40,000
d) 60,000
c) 40,000
Which of the following was NOT one of Antiochus IV’s actions aimed at suppressing Jewish identity mentioned in the text?
a) Forbidding circumcision
b) Forbidding abstaining from pork
c) Outlawing the Torah
d) Building new synagogues
d) Building new synagogues
What was set up in the temple under Antiochus IV, leading to a major offense for the Jewish people?
a) A statue of Antiochus IV
b) A Roman altar
c) An altar to Zeus with a pig sacrifice
d) A Greek library
c) An altar to Zeus with a pig sacrifice
The revolt against Antiochus IV broke out in the countryside in what year?
a) 175 BCE
b) 167 BCE
c) 164 BCE
d) 63 BCE
b) 167 BCE
The rededication of the temple (purification) occurred in what year?
a) 170 BCE
b) 168 BCE
c) 164 BCE
d) 160 BCE
c) 164 BCE
According to the text, what is a common misconception about apocalypses?
a) That they are always written by prophets.
b) That they primarily focus on historical events.
c) That they describe the end of the world rather than the end of an era.
d) That they always involve angelic mediation.
c) That they describe the end of the world rather than the end of an era.
What is the Greek term from which the word “apocalypse” is derived, and what does it mean?
a) “Apokalyptein,” meaning “to hide.”
b) “Apocalyptikos,” meaning “prophetic.”
c) “Apokalypsis,” meaning “to reveal or uncover.”
d) “Eschaton,” meaning “the end.”
c) “Apokalypsis,” meaning “to reveal or uncover.”
According to the text, what is the primary purpose of apocalyptic literature?
a) To accurately predict future events.
b) Not a prediction of the future but a commentary on the present.
c) To provide detailed accounts of the afterlife.
d) To establish new religious laws.
b) Not a prediction of the future but a commentary on the present.
Which books of the Old Testament are specifically mentioned as early Jewish apocalypses in the text?
a) Genesis and Exodus
b) Daniel and the Book of Watchers (1 En. 1-36)
c) Psalms and Proverbs
d) Isaiah and Jeremiah
b) Daniel and the Book of Watchers (1 En. 1-36)
In the Book of Daniel (Daniel 7-12), whose actions are placed within a larger cosmic world?
a) Alexander the Great’s
b) The Maccabees’
c) Antiochus’
d) The Roman emperors’
c) Antiochus’
