Biblical prophecy begins with _______________ more than 1000 years before the birth
of Jesus - answersSamuel
The prophets fulfill a crucial __________________ role, driven by their insistence on
covenant loyalty - answerspolitical
One role of the biblical prophet is to __________________ the political leadership for its
acts of injustice - answerscriticize
The word prophet means someone who acts as a ______________ between the
human and divine worlds; one who speaks on behalf and in the name of the deity -
answerslink
__________ emerges in the Torah as Israel's prophet par excellance, who serves as
the prototype and benchmark of all later prophets - answersMoses
The rise of prophecy in ancient Israel occurs in the __________ century BCE with the
rise of the monarchy - answers11th
The prophet __________ shepherds Israel into the age of monarchy by anointing Saul
as first king of Israel - answersSamuel
By the time of the prophet _____________, the role of the prophet had expanded
beyond the function of private advisor to the monarch to include public pronouncements
denouncing the political leadership - answersElijah
Elijah challenges 450 prophets of the god Ba'al on the summit of Mount _________ -
answersCarmel
The period of the so-called "writing" prophets begins in the 8th century BCE with the
prophet _______ - answersAmos
The 8th century is a time of increasing ____________ in Israelite society, when rich
became richer and the poor became poorer - answersimbalance
, Amos says the in order to be the people of God, Israel has to be concerned with
_________ _____________ - answerssocial justice
Amos runs afoul of the priest ____________, who tells him to get out of town -
answersAmaziah
Isaiah receives his prophetic call in a vision in the _____________ in Jerusalem -
answerstemple
The book of ___________ is the longest prophetic text of the Bible - answersIsaiah
The major political crisis of the time of Isaiah of Jerusalem was the threat of invasion by
the advancing ___________ army - answersAssyrian
Despite the Assyrian aggression, Isaiah predicts that the city of ______________ will be
spared - answersJerusalem
The prophet ______________ had to fight against the prediction that God will never
allow Jerusalem to fall to an enemy - answersJeremiah
Jeremiah lashes out against _____________ and false prophets in his Temple Sermon
- answersidolatry
To illustrate symbolically Judah's future captivity, Jeremiah walks through the streets of
Jerusalem wearing a wooden _____________ - answersyoke
Ezekiel is instructed to eat a ___________ as a symbolic expression of the idea that the
word of God is within him - answersscroll
Ezekiel has a fantastic vision of a sparkling ______________ with many-eyed wheels -
answerschariot
Ezekiel witnesses the destruction of the _________ and then exile of the Jews from
their homeland to Babylon - answerstemple
Ezekiel teaches a new idea: that the God of Israel can be worshipped anywhere, not
just in _____________, thereby refuting the Deuteronomic requirement that there be
One Place of Worship - answersJerusalem
By the time of Alexander Great in the 4th century BCE there was a general consensus
among the people that the prophecy was _________ - answersdead
prophets - answersOne who speaks in the name of and on behalf of the deity
prophetes - answersone who speaks forth
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