Chapter LXIII: Section CXX: The Messianic Hopes and Religious Beliefs of Judaism

GENERAL QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the influences that determined the growth of Israel's messianic hopes. 2. The different forms which these hopes assumed. 3. The kingly nationalistic type of messianic hope. 4. The characteristics and development of the apocalyptic, catastrophic type of hope. 5. The type proclaimed by the great ethical prophets. 6. The broadening and universalizing of Israel's messianic hopes. 7. The influence of the Maccabean struggle upon Israel's messianic beliefs. 8. The messianic expectations of the Jews at the beginning of the Christian era.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The origin of Israel's messianic hopes. _St. O. T_., Ill, 39-48; Goodspeed, _Israel's Messianic Hope_; Oesterley, _Evolution of the Messianic Idea_. 2. The Sibylline Oracles. Deane, _Pseudepigrapha_; Hastings, _D.B._, extra vol., 66-8. 3. The Psalms of Solomon. Ryle and James, _The Pss. of Sol._; Deane, _Pseudepigrapha_, 25-48.