GENERAL QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the influences that determined the growth
of Israel's messianic hopes. 2. The different forms which these hopes
assumed. 3. The kingly nationalistic type of messianic hope. 4. The
characteristics and development of the apocalyptic, catastrophic type of
hope. 5. The type proclaimed by the great ethical prophets. 6. The
broadening and universalizing of Israel's messianic hopes. 7. The
influence of the Maccabean struggle upon Israel's messianic beliefs.
8. The messianic expectations of the Jews at the beginning of the
Christian era.
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The origin of Israel's messianic
hopes. _St. O. T_., Ill, 39-48; Goodspeed, _Israel's Messianic Hope_;
Oesterley, _Evolution of the Messianic Idea_. 2. The Sibylline Oracles.
Deane, _Pseudepigrapha_; Hastings, _D.B._, extra vol., 66-8. 3. The Psalms
of Solomon. Ryle and James, _The Pss. of Sol._; Deane, _Pseudepigrapha_,
25-48.