RLST 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jewish Diaspora, Babylonian Captivity, Mishnah
19 May 2014
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Tanakh jewish bible three sections: torah [5] (the first five books of the hebrew bible); Nevi"im [8] (or prophets, which includes works of both prophecy and history); and. Khetuvim [11] (or writings, a miscellaneous gathering of works in poetry and prose). Taken together, the twenty-four books that make of this collection constitute the core scriptures of judaism. 586 bce babylonian exile (the once independent israelite kingdoms of israel and. Thousands of the israelites were driven into exile or simply absorbed into the assyrian and babylonian empires). In time, the loss of the first temple and of the kingdom of judah became the archetype of all later tragedies of displacement that the jews were to endure and would be commemorated in both prayer and practice. 70 ce second temple period saw both the growth of the jewish diaspora and an increase in the. Jewish population of palestine, as one empire succeeded another in turn (persian, ptolemaic, seleucid, roman).
