Chapter XXXIX: Section XCVI: Israel's Training and Destiny. GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Describe the conditions in the Judean community during the seventy years following the rebuilding of the temple. 2. The forces that kept alive the spiritual life of the Jews. 3. The indications that Isaiah 40-66 were written in Palestine. 4. The probable date of these chapters. 5. Their distinctive literary characteristics. 6. The purpose for which they were written.

SUBJECTS FOE SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The organization of the Persian Empire under Darius. Goodspeed, _Hist, of Anc. World_, 62-3; Ragozin, _Media_, 384-91; Sayce, _Anc. Empires_, 247-50; _En. Bib_., I, 1016-7. 2. The Persian invasions of Europe. Goodspeed, _Anc. Hist._, 122-8; Herodotus, IV, 1-142; Ragozin, _Media_, 412-29; Bury, _Hist. of Greece_, 265-96; Botsford, _Hist. of Greece_, 127-36. 3. Contents and literary characteristics of Isaiah 40-48. _St. O. T_., Ill, 27-30; Cobb, in _Jour, of Bib. Lit_., XXVII, 48-64; Box, _Isaiah_, 179-237.