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started by Daniel Lee on 29 Mar 11 5 follow-ups, last by Jennifer Lee on 01 Apr 11

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Babylonian exile ended in 538 B.C.E. when the Persian king Cyrus conquered Babylon and issued an edict
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  Jews can return!
  
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most chose to remain in Babylon
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adapted to life in exile
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beginning of a pronounced shift within Jewish culture
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maintain their commitment to Judaism while absent from the Jewish polity meant that it was now possible, for the first time, to sustain Jewish life without having to live in the Jewish homeland
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new and portable forms of Jewish ritual life
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a growing proportion of the Jewish population lived outside the Jewish polity, some through forcible exile, and some voluntarily in pursuit of economic ventures outside the Jewish state
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conquest of the Hebrew kingdom of Judah, the Babylonians exiled the Jewish elite to Babylon
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Only voluntary emigration, by their analysis, truly falls under the heading of "diaspora."
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("diaspora" ="dispersion, scattering")
- Diane Rhim on 31 Mar 11
  
  definition of diaspora
  
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When the Assyrians conquered Israel in 722, the Hebrew inhabitants were scattered all over the Middle East
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when Nebuchadnezzar deported the Judaeans in 597 and 586 BC, he allowed them to remain in a unified community in Babylon
- Diane Rhim on 31 Mar 11
  
  unified in Babylon
  
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When the Assyrians conquered Israel in 722, the Hebrew inhabitants were scattered all over the Middle East
- Diane Rhim on 31 Mar 11
  
  victim (what happened to them?) = unknown
  
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After 73 AD, Hebrew history would only be the history of the Diaspora as the Jews and their world view spread over Africa, Asia, and Europe.
- Diane Rhim on 31 Mar 11
  
  *** Jews spread over Africa, Asia, and Europe
  
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