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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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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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