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the treatment of the Jews. 9. Fortunes of the Jews of Palestine during the
first century of Greek rule. 10. The Seleucid kingdom with its capital at
Antioch. 11. The subjugation of Palestine by the Seleucids.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. Josephus's rank as a historian.
Hastings, _D.B._, extra Vol., 461-73. 2. Alexander the Great. Mahaffy,
_The Story of Alexander's Empire_, 1-11; Hogarth, _Philip and Alexander
of Macedon_; Wheeler, _Alexander the Great_. 3. Character of the
Ptolemaic rulers. Bevan, _Jerusalem under the High Priests_, 21-30;
Mahaffy, _The Ptolemaic Dynasty_, Vol. IV of Petrie's _Hist. of Egypt_.

Section CV. The Wise and Their Teachings. GENERAL QUESTIONS:
1. Describe the literary structure of the book of Proverbs. 2. The
evidence that it is the work of many different wise men. 3. The probable
date of the different collections. 4. The references to the wise in the
pre-exilic literature. 5. The influence of the Babylonian exile upon their
activity. 6. The reasons why they attained their greatest prominence in
the Greek period. 7. The character of the wise. 8. Their aims. 9. Their
methods. 10. Their important social and moral teachings.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The book of Proverbs. McFadyen,
_Introd. to O.T._, 256-63; Driver, _L. O.T._, 392-407; Toy, _Proverbs_,
Introd. 2. The sages of Egypt and Greece. The Wisdom of Ptah-hotep, in
the _Wisdom of the East Series_; Symonds, _Studies of the Greek Poets_, I,
161-273; Jebb, _Classical Greek Poetry_. 3. The social teachings of the
book of Proverbs. _St. O. T_., VI, _in loco_; Kent, _The Wise Men of
Ancient Israel and Their Proverbs_, 100-14, 158-75; Root, _The Profit of
the Many_, 17-126.

Section CVI. The Different Currents of Thought in Judaism during the
Greek Period. GENERAL QUESTIONS: 1. Why were there many different
currents of thought in Judaism during this period? 2. Describe the
character and aims of the ritualists. 3. Of the legalists. 4. Of those who
laid especial emphasis upon the teaching of the earlier prophets. 5. The
evidence regarding the date of the book of Jonah. 6. The meaning of the
story. 7. Its teaching. 8. The history of the book of Ecclesiastes. 9. Its
point of view. 10. Its philosophy of life.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The Chronicler's conception of the
origin of Israel's institutions. Curtis, _Chronicles_, Introd.; Torrey,
_Ezra Studies_, 208-38; _St. O. T_., II, 22-8. 2. Greek myths parallel to
the sto