1 ene 585 año aC - The Babylonians Conquer Judah, Exile the People, and Destroy the ‘First Temple’
Descripción:
A lot of Jews from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylonia. After the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE, exiled Judeans were permitted to return to Judah. In the Hebrew Bible, the captivity in Babylon is presented as a punishment for idolatry and disobedience in a similar way to the presentation of Israelite slavery in Egypt followed by deliverance. Afterwards, they were organized by smaller family groups. Only the tribe of Levi continued in its temple role after the return. After this time, there were always sizable numbers of Jews living outside Eretz Israel; so, it also marks the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora. They had to worship in synagogues instead of temples, and they had to focus on more priests then just one priest in the temple. The aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered “in exile” outside Palestine or present-day Israel. After the Babylonians conquered the Kingdom of Judah, part of the Jewish population was deported into slavery. Thereafter, the chief centers of Judaism shifted from country to country (Babylonia, Persia, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and the United States), and Jewish communities gradually adopted distinctive languages, rituals, and cultures, some submerging themselves in non-Jewish environments more completely than others.
