The World before Christ

The ____ became heroes in the Jewish story because they allowed the Jews return homer and resume their worship.

• Assyrians

• Neo-Babylonians

• Persians

• Egyptians

As Alexander the Great spread Hellenism throughout the Mediterranean world, it was difficult and uncommon for Jewish populations to grow in their foreign cities.

• True\

• False

According to Josephus, Ptolemy II commissioned a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, called the ___, out of a desire to have a translation of the Old Testament in the library at Alexandria.

• Vulgate

• Torah

• Septuagint

• Apocrypha

Antiochus IV desired to dedicate the Temple in Jerusalem to....

• Apollo

• Zeus

• Poseidon

• the God of Abraham

The Maccabees rebelled against the ____ Empire because of the corruption in Jerusalem and then established the Hasmonean Kingdom.

• Seleucid

• Persian

• Roman

• Parthian

In 63 BC, _____ conquered Judaea for Rome.

• Antiochus IV

• Herod the Great

• Julius Caesar

• Pompey

According to Dr. Calvert, the Pharisees were very strict in their adherence to the Law because they wanted to ....

• avoid another exile

• protect the Torah through additional laws

• encourage Jews in their daily practice of the Torah

• All of the above

The Herodians gained power in Judaea by opposing Rome.

• True

• False

The Jews sent ____ to Rome to try to dissuade Caligula from placing a golden statue of himself in Temple on Jerusalem.

• Agrippa II

• Flaccus

• Philo of Alexandria

• Pontius Pilate

The emperor ____ set fire to Rome and blamed it on the Christians.

• Caligula

• Nero

• Claudius

• Tacitus