Chapter LV: Section CXII: Peace and Prosperity under Simon. GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Describe the political intrigues which resulted in the death of Jonathan. 2. The character and rule of Simon. 3. His extension of the Jewish territory. 4. The authority granted him by the Jews. 5. His development of the temple service. 6. The causes that led to the completion of the Psalter. 7. The religious life and faith reflected in the later psalms.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Compare the characters of the three brothers, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon. 2. The guilds of temple singers. Hastings, _D.B._, IV, 92-3; Wellhausen, _The Book of Psalms_ (in _S.B. O.T._), 217-9. 3. The evidence that many of the psalms come from the Maccabean period. Hastings, _D.B._, IV, 152-3; Cheyne, _Origin of the Psalter_.