HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Second Temple Judaism, Cyrus Cylinder, Yazata
22 Mar 2018
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724-722 bc: fall of northern kingdom (israel) Polytheism: worship of many gods: if the temple is destroyed the god is destroyed. Cyrus the great the persian who conquers the babylonians, tells them & the. Jews to return home and build their temples. The cyrus cylinder: the message from cyrus to the babylonians that tells them to go home and rebuild their temples to marduk. Ancient judaism is not modern day judaism. First temple judaism (900-587 bc : religion with the destruction of temples; no temple = no god. 539 bc cyrus restores the jews and they build the second temple judaism (537. Cyrus runs a religiously free empire places must send military and pay taxes though. 1000 bc: believe in two gods dualism. Jews change their ideas of what angels looks like: syncretism: process by which two religions are close together so they share ideas. Iliad by homer: book i: greek honor is real & has political (social) relevance.
