Bible cross puzzle: Ezra, Nehemiah, Psalms, Ezekiel, and Daniel

Crossword puzzle from Sacred Scripture

Draws on material in chapters 10, 12, 14, and 17 of Discovering the Bible by, Alex Varughese

Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book by Varughese?

ACROSS

3 -- Son of Iddo mentioned by Ezra as a prophet
6 -- A prophet who lived in Exile in Babylon and who had some strange visions, including one involving a valley of dry bones and another a "wheel within a wheel"
7 -- The man whom God protected in the lions' den in Babylon. The document in the Bible which bears his name has some End-Times prophetic visions

DOWN

1 -- Persian king who let the Jewish Exiles go home and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem
2 -- A foreign king's "cup-bearer" who returned to Jerusalem to become its governor and oversee the rebuilding of its defensive walls
4 -- Prophet mentioned in Ezra's book
5 -- Jewish priest and scribe who was instrumental in aiding the return of the Exiles and in re-instituting the public reading of the Book of the Law of God.

This crossword puzzle was created for use in the course Introduction to Biblical Literature. The words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, now called The Foundry.

-- Howard Culbertson,

Bible reading for this assignment: Daniel 1-6; Ezekiel 1-4, 8, 6, 37; Ezra 1, 3-7; Nehemiah 1-5, 8, 9; Psalms 1-2, 22, 51, 118, 137-138, 150

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