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*aka ‘babylonian exile’*
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*~597 BCE – ~539 BCE*
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*~59 YEARS*
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-the babylonian captivity is the period in ‘jewish history’ during which a # of ‘judahites’ of the ancient ‘kingdom of judah’ were ‘captives’ in ‘babylonia’-
(modern-day iraq)
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*605 BCE*
(after the ‘battle of carchemish’ in ‘605 BCE’, ‘nebuchadnezzar’ (the ‘king of babylon’) besieged ‘jerusalem’, resulting in tribute being paid by ‘king jehoiakim’)
(‘jehoiakim’ refused to pay tribute in nebuchadnezzar’s 4th year, which led to another siege in nebuchadnezzar’s 7th year, culminating with the death of ‘jehoiakim’ and the exile of ‘king jeconiah’, his court and many others)
(jeconiah’s successor ‘zedekiah’ and others were exiled in nebuchadnezzar’s 18th year)
(a later deportation occurred in nebuchadnezzar’s 23rd year)
(the ‘dates’, ‘# of deportations’, and ‘# of deportees’ given in the ‘biblical accounts’ vary)
(in ‘587 BC’, ‘nebuchadnezzar II’ (king of the ‘neo-babylonian empire’) besieged ‘jerusalem’, destroyed the ‘first temple’, and deported the most prominent citizens of ‘judah’)
(in ‘586 BCE’, ‘judah’ itself ceased to be an ‘independent kingdom’, and its remaining ‘jews’ were left ‘stateless’)
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(the ‘babylonian exile’ ended in ‘539 BCE’ when the ‘achaemenid empire’ conquered ‘babylon’ + ‘cyrus the great’ allowed the ‘exiled jews’ to return to ‘yehud’ + rebuild their ‘temple’)
(these ‘deportations’ are dated to ‘597 BCE’ for the first, with others dated at ‘587/586 BCE’ / ‘582/581 BCE’ respectively)
(after the ‘fall of babylon’ to the persian king ‘cyrus the great’ in ‘539 BCE’, exiled ‘judeans’ were permitted to return to ‘judah’)
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(according to the biblical ‘book of ezra’, construction of the ‘2nd temple’ in ‘jerusalem’ began around ‘516 BCE’)
(all these events are considered ‘significant’ in ‘jewish history’ + ‘jewish culture’, and had a far-reaching impact on the development of ‘judaism’)
(archaeological studies have revealed that not all of the population of ‘judah’ was deported, and that, although ‘jerusalem’ was utterly destroyed, other parts of ‘judah’ continued to be inhabited during the period of the ‘exile’)
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(the ‘return of the exiles’ was a ‘gradual process’ rather than a ‘single event’, and many of the ‘deportees’ or their ‘descendants’ did not return)
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