Chapter LIV: Section CXI: The Long Contest for Political Independence. GENERAL

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.