Sentences with phrase «babylonian exile»

When the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II (605562 B.C.E.) sent the Judeans into Babylonian exile and destroyed the walls of Jericho, he substantially affected the history of Palestine.

This is Leviticus, the Levitical book — laws, instructions, torah collected and arranged (but not necessarily composed) by the Levitical priests during and after the period of Babylonian exile, that is, in the sixth and fifth centuries.

These attitudes were deepened, Greenberg argues, during the Babylonian exile when Israel was influenced by the extreme antipathy to homosexuality found in Zoroastrianism.

«Late Judaism,» the Judaism from the period of the Babylonian exile to the revolt of bar Kokhba, is characterized as inauthentic Judaism, a Judaism that turned its back on genuine faith in the Lord, the God of Israel, and the message of the prophets.

Described as Israel's last good king, Josiah reigned for thirty - one years during a final period of peace before the Babylonian exile.

But at the same time it would distort the reckoning for David would be counted twice, but Jechoniah, representing the transition of the Babylonian exile, only once.

But the real JEDP theory states that large chunks of the Pentateuch wasn't written until much later, maybe during the divided kingdom era or even later, during the rebuilding of the Temple after the Babylonian exile.

Described as Israel's last good king, he reigned for thirty - one years during a final period of peace before the Babylonian exile.

Their history as a people, from the time of the ancient Babylonian exile onwards, has been strongly marked by the theme of death and resurrection.

To disregard that Ezekiel is a prophet of the Babylonian exile and that those words gave hope to fellow exiles about their return is an example of molding the message.

In view of the problems it causes, it is no wonder that polygamy was unknown among the Jews after the Babylonian exile, and monogamy was the rule even among the Greeks and Romans by New Testament times.

Consider the actual people who physically wrote the Bible: The ancient Jew: They did not go into Babylonian exile, for nothing!

Israel ultimately brought chaos upon itself in the catastrophic destruction of Jerusalem and in the Babylonian exile.

The Babylonian exile was destined to bring forth the re-birth of hope, In the early days Ezekiel reports that the exiles were saying, «Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.»

We are, after all, in Babylonian exile from our true home in the New Jerusalem.

Laura, THAT's what he told them before the Babylonian exile also.

The fall of Jerusalem, the scattering of the Jews, the reformation of the nation of Israel in 1948, the kingdom of Solomon, the Babylonian exile, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, another destruction of Jerusalem in 90AD... oh yeah... and over 300 prophecies PRECISELY fulfilled by the life of Jesus.

HUNDREDS of prophecies precisely fulfilled... attesting to the divine / godly nature of the Bible... including the fall of Jerusalem, Solomon's kingdom, the scattering of the Jews abroad, the formation of the nation of Israel in 1948, the Babylonian exile, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the falling again of Jerusalem in 90AD... oh yeah... and over 300 prophecies fulfilled EXACTLY by the life of Jesus.

Along the way, however, as the prophet Jeremiah counseled the Israelites in Babylonian exile, we seek the peace of the temporal city in which we find also our provisional peace.

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

There isn't even a consistent belief in the «afterlife» in Judaism, although after the Babylonian exile a belief in «GeHenna» (close to the Catholic idea of «purgatory») was adopted by many.

The time sequence in 26 - 29 is chronological, moving from Jehoiakim's reign (26) to Zedekiah's (598 - 587); and chapter 29 is a letter to Babylonian exiles deported from Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in 597.

Not exact matches

That day, as he stood behind the speaker's lectern, he felt like an Israelite in exile called upon to sing for his Babylonian captors.

Israel multiplied under Egyptian slave masters, and Jews rose to prominence in Babylonian and Persian exile, as they learned to sing the Lord's songs in a foreign land.

@nate «makes sense that after the Jews exile in Babylon they would attach and modify their beliefs, using the earlier Babylonian stories as a template... its very clever on their part.»

This last fact, together with the dismal physical state of Judah, no doubt attracted some voluntary Jewish exiles to Babylonian settlements.

Then came a day when Jeremiah was watching as Babylonian soldiers marched Rachel's offspring, children of Israel, naked and trembling along that same road toward exile far away.

It was in the first year of his assumption of Babylonian rule that he set in motion the machinery for Judah's renewal with a favorable edict permitting and supporting the return of exiles and the rebuilding of the Temple.

At the time of the exile in Babylon (587 - 537 BC) Jewish thinkers were exposed to Babylonian wisdom literature.