Intertestamental Period

The Intertestamental Period is also called:

• the four hundred violent years

• the four hundred silent years

• the four hundred years without a covenant

• the waiting years

What language became the lingua franca (common language) during the Intertestamental Period:

• Hebrew

• Aramaic

• Latin

• Greek

What is the Septuagint?

• a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament

• An Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Old Testament

• A Hebrew translation of the Greek Old Testament

• A Hebrew translation of the Greek Old Testament

Hellenization is:

• the use of Greek force to counter the Persians or the Assyrians at the borders

• the use of Greek force to maintain religious solidarity

• the spread of Greek culture so as to mix with other cultures

• the use of Greek or indo-European, military force so as to maintain the outer boundaries of the empire

During the Seleucid reign, an altar to Zeus was erected in the Jerusalem Temple

• True

• False

The Maccabean Revolt was led by:

• Menelaus

• Antiochus Epiphanes

• Judas Maccabeus

• Onias III

The Hasmonean dynasty resulted in the following Jewish groups:

• Pharisees

• Sadducees

• Essenes

• All of these groups

The birth of Jesus took place during the reign of

• Emperor Augustus

• Emperor Caligula

• Emperor Nero

• Emperor Domitian