QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the situation of the Jewish colony in Babylon.
2. Their opportunities and occupations. 3. Their religious life. 4. The
prophecies of Ezekiel after the destruction of Jerusalem. 5. Meaning of
his description of the valley of dry bones in chapter 37. 6. His
conception of the way in which the scattered exiles were to be restored.
7. His plan of the restored temple. 8. The meaning and significance of
this detailed plan.
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Babylon under Nebuchadrezzar.
Goodspeed, _Hist. of Babs. and Assyrs_., 336-50; _En. Bib_., III,
3369-71. 2. The religious institutions of the Babylonians. Goodspeed,
_Hist. of Babs. and Assyrs._, 351-66; Jastrow, _Relig. of Bab. and
Assyr._; Johns, _Bab. and Assyr. Laws, Letters, and Contracts_, 208-17.
3. Influence of Babylonian institutions upon Ezekiel. Toy, _Ezek._
(Introd.).