HUMA 1880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cyrus Cylinder, Worship God, Dead Sea Scrolls
20 Oct 2017
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Diaspora toronto is a city of global diaspora, most people disperse not because they are forced to, it is the scattering from a center. Exile forcibly pushed out of an area. Brutality of sieges of 2 israelite kingdoms: murder, mutilation, slavery, dispersion (people eating children due to starvation) Psalm: 137: 1-9 captures asking their slaves to sing them a happy song after they were forcibly deported, killing children, vengeful, believes that the babylonians should and will be punished. Jeremiah: 29: 4-7 messages god to the deportees, peaceful, make a peaceful life captive and you will have peace, pray for the welfare of the place that you live in. Return to zion cyrus encourages return of taken people and revive traditions, many people decide to stay in babylon/see babylon as their home and do not want to go back to their land of people.
