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What did the Jews lose due to the exile to Babylon?
- the Holy City of Jerusalem
- the Promised Land
- the Temple
- David's dynasty
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What are the characteristics of Babylon?
a huge city, with massive monuments of pagan culture
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What was the good that came out of the Babylonian Exile?
- The Jews in exile experienced a religious revival.
- Many books of the OT were edited into their final forms during the Babylonian Exile.
- In exile, they wrote the history of how they lost everything because of their lack of fidelity to God's covenant.
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What do many scholars think that chapters 40-55 of Isaiah must have been written by someone else at a later time, in the middle of the 6th century?
- Clear reference to the capture and destruction of Jerusalem
- Clear reference to the exile as a current event
- References to Cyrus of Persia
- Emphasis on return home for the exiles
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What is the word used by Second Isaiah more often than any other biblical author?
redeemer (ga'al)
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What do we know about the Second Isaiah?
- He was among the exiles in Babylon.
- He was probably active near the end of the exile in 539.
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Literary forms in Deutero-Isaiah
- Trial speeches and lawsuit language
- Oracle of salvations
- Idol parodies (mocking idols)
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What does the Suffering Servant Songs suggest?
It suggests that God accepts one individual's suffering to atone for the sins of others.
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How are we to interpret the Suffering Servant Songs?
The enigmatic ambiguity of Isaiah's text, suggesting an interpretation of the Servant---now as an individual, now a s a collective---becomes clear with the revelation of the "total Christ" which includes the head and members---the Lord and his Body, the Church.
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What is acrostic poem? Where are they found?
A poem in which eahc line or stanze begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet. They are found in Chapters 1, 2, 4 of Lamentations.
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What is the possible dating for Lamentations?
The poems date from a time shortly after 586, and it is one fo the most important sources of information about the conditions in Jerusalem and Judah after the Babylonian attack.
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Who is believed to be the author of the Book of Lamentations?
Jeremiah
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Why do the poems in Lamentations personify Jerusalem as a widow?
Jerusalem has been abandoned by her "lovers"---the false gods and foreign nations in which she had placed hope.
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