QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the attitude of the heathen nations toward the
Jews. 2. The political problems that confronted them. 3. The Jewish
attitude toward the heathen reflected in the book of Esther. 4, Judas's
east-Jordan campaign. 5. Results of the battle of Beth-zacharias. 6. The
re-establishment of Syrian authority. 7. The victories over Nicanor.
8. The causes which resulted in the death of Judas. 9. Conditions in the
Syrian court which gave the Jews their great opportunity. 10. The
character and policy of Jonathan. 11. The honors and authority granted him
by the rival Syrian kings.
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The history and value of the book of
Esther. Paton, _Esther_; Hastings, _D. B., I_, 773-6; _En. Bib._, II,
1400-5. 2. The Syrian history of the period. Bevan, _Jer. under the High
Priests_, 100-6; Smith, _O.T. Hist._, 465-9. 3. The scenes of Judas's
east-Jordan campaign. Kent, _Bib. Geog. and Hist._, 214-7.