Chapter XL: Section XCVII: Conditions and Problems in the Jewish Community

GENERAL QUESTIONS: I. What is the probable date of the book of Malachi? 2. Describe its teachings regarding the temple service. 3. The need of a great moral awakening. 4. The doubts expressed by the faithful in the community. 5. The encouraging promises held out to them. 6. Presentation of the problem of the faithful in the psalms of the period.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Contemporary Greek history and literature. Goodspeed, _Anc. Hist._, 159-96; Bury, _Hist. of Greece_, 507-90; Jebb, _Greek Lit._, 109-20. 2. The earliest psalms. Briggs, _Psalms_, I, LXXXIX-XCII; Cobb, _Bk. of Pss._, XI-XIV; Driver, _Lit. of the O.T._, 371-2; McFadyen, _Introd. to O.T._, 238-50. 3. Psalm literature among contemporary peoples. Breasted, _Hist. of Anc. Egyptians_, 273-7; Jastrow, _Relig. of Bab. and Assyr._, 294-327.