Jewish World of Jesus Review Game

Around when was the Jewish temple rebuilt for the 2nd time in Jerusalem, after the first one had been destroyed?

When was the 2nd Jewish temple destroyed?

Place the following books in the order in which they were written (not set).

Which hermeneutical lens looks especially at the role of women in a text, seeking signs of women's oppression or agency?

Which canon holds the book "Additions to Esther" or "Greek Esther?"

Which hermeneutical lens might ask how masculinity is being constructed in the text?

Place these ancient Mediterranean empires in chronological order:

Which hermeneutical lens looks not only at the role of women in a text but the role of any marginalised communities?

Which hermeneutical lens might ask what a text's relationship is to the empire in power at the time of its writing.

Which literary genre features life advice, with often contradictory or parallel sayings, often poetically written?

Which literary genre features a vision, a divine interpreter, a heavenly (or hellish) tour, and/or a judgement timeline?

Which empire is Judah the Maccabee associated with?

Which empire ended the Babylonian exile for Judaism and allowed Jews back to their national territory?

Which character from a book in the Hebrew Bible swoops in to save the day in the book of Susannah?

Which empire is Alexander the Great associated with?

Which collection has these books in it (among others)? Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, Wisdom, Letter of Jeremiah, Tanakh.

Which Jewish dynasty was in power at the time of Jesus?

Which collection has these books in it (among others)? Gospel of Matthew, Revelation (Apocalypse of John), Romans.

Which literary genre features a lengthy expansion of a brief older text?

Which literary genre features a rhetorically persuasive, positively biased biography of Jesus?

Which hermeneutical lens asks about the class of a text's authors or consumers, and whether it supports labourers.

Around when was the first Jewish temple constructed?

Which collection has these books in it (among others)? 1 Enoch, Joseph & Aseneth, Apocalypse of Abraham?

Which of the following canons was not collected in ancient times but was only made into a collection by modern scholars?

Which hermeneutical lens looks at design features like chiasmus, parallelism, rhyme, alliteration, themes, structure?

Which empire is Cyrus associated with?

Place the following collections of writing in chronological order (of being written)

Which empire is Nebuchadnezzar or Nabuchodonosor associated with?

Which hermeneutical lens prioritises a text's context and attempts to understand its original authors & readers?

Place these Jewish events in chronological order

Which collection has these books in it (among others)? Exodus, Deuteronomy, Daniel, Esther, Jeremiah, Chronicles.

Which collection of sacred writings did early Christians seem MOST familiar with?