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Jun 26, 2024 · Babylonian Captivity, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the Neo-Babylonian Empire’s conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 bce. The captivity formally ended in 538 bce, when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great, gave the Jews permission to return to Palestine.
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Jul 1, 2024 · Judaism - Babylonian Exile, Diaspora, Torah: The survival of the religious community of exiles in Babylonia demonstrates how rooted and widespread the religion of YHWH was. Abandonment of the national religion as an outcome of the disaster is recorded of only a minority. There were some cries of despair, but the persistence of prophecy among the exiles shows that their religious vitality had ...
4 days ago · Scene from Lachish reliefs: Judahites from Lachish in Assyrian captivity, playing the lyre (cf. Psalm 137 from a later period: 'they that carried us away captive required of us a song'.) The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized : təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of ...
2 days ago · 14th Dalai Lama - Exile, Buddhism, Tibet: In the wake of the Lhasa uprising and the Chinese consolidation of power across Tibet, tens of thousands of Tibetans followed the Dalai Lama into exile. In 1960 he established his government-in-exile in Dharamsala, a former British hill station in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where he continued to reside. The government of India, however, was ...
Jun 28, 2024 · The experience of exile and the need to uphold their cultural and religious identity in a foreign land forced the Jewish people to preserve their traditions through written texts; prophetic literature that addressed themes of exile, repentance, and hope for restoration emerged during this era.
Jun 29, 2024 · Curious Matter: The Exile follows a disgraced ex-federal agent exiled to Mars and is forced to join the Marsport Police by a clandestine organization known as T-Sec. In a desperate bid to find a ...
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4 days ago · Aidos Sadykov, an opposition activist whose YouTube channel often criticizes Kazakhstan’s government, was shot in Ukraine, where he was living in exile. By Carlotta Gall and Oleksandr Chubko ...