Section CXIX.  Herod’s Temple.  GENERAL QUESTIONS:  1.  Describe the motives that inspired Herod to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem. 2.  His preparations for the work. 3.  The extension of the temple area. 4.  The different gates leading to it. 5.  The surrounding porches. 6.  The temple proper. 7.  The temple officials. 8.  The temple service.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH:  1.  The detailed plan and dimensions of Herod’s temple.  Hastings, D.B., IV, 711-6; En Bib., IV, 4943-7; Warren, The Temple and the Tomb; Smith, Jerusalem, II, 499-520. 2.  The administration of the temple finances.  Hastings, D.B., IV, 92-7; En.  Bib., IV, 4949-51; Smith, Jerusalem, I, 351-66. 3.  The inscription forbidding foreigners to enter the inner courts.  Hastings, D.B., IV, 713-4.

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.