HIST 2100 Lecture 39: HIST 3110 lectures 39-40
20 Jun 2020
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Deportations from palestine peaked in the babylonian period. The judeans who fled did not onl free to judah, but also to egypt. Jeremiah provides little information about the judean exile to egypt. The judeans who were deported from babylon in 597, 586, and 582 bc dd not start the diaspora. The babylonian deportations of 597, 586, and 582 bc [jeremiah 52:29] expanded the number of. The judeans who escaped to egypt following gedaliah"s assassination were not the first to leave. The bible and non-biblical sources on the diaspora: Jewish names on cuneiform tablets discovered at the site of nippur in 1893 on the commercial and land-leasing activity of the murashu firm. The murashu were a successful judean family business, run by judeans, thriving in the. Royal cuneiform tablets referring to jehoiachin in exile [see anet 308] The elephantine papyri, aramaic texts found at elephantine island opposite aswan in egypt.
