1. Discuss this statement: 'The Jews brought destruction on themselves in A.D. 70. Their disaster could have been avoided.'

2. Explain why the Jews opposed Hellenization.

3. Discuss this statement: 'The scattered Jewish communities of other countries were to be the seed-bed of the Christian faith in the first century A.D.'

 

4.   Write your own notes on: Alexander the Great Antiochus IV Mattathias and his sons Herod the Great

Use an encyclopedia or Bible dictionary as well as this book.

5.   Explain what you understand by this statement: 'African society today is facing a culture conflict rather similar to that faced by the Jews when Hellenization swept across their world.' Do you think that we can learn anything from the Jewish experience about what we should or should not do in our present society?