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Hele Midden
Oosten is natuurlijk
bijna altijd al 'n zootje geweest
in haast alle tijden & opzichten: opgeblazen
wrede heersers, bezetters, uitbuiters, volvreters met veelwijverij,
legio kindermisbruik, permanente vrouwenhandel &
allerlei aanverwante ellende.

Slavernij was schering & inslag:
de potentaten wisselden elkaar af compleet
met talloze massaslachtingen!

The destruction of Yerushalayim
by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnetsar
is a central episode in biblical his-tory:
according to 2 Kings 24-25 the Judaean king Yehoyachin yielded to him
{in 597 BCE} and all but the poorest of the land were deported, with the Temple also being looted.

Eleven years later, his successor Tsedekyah rebelled & Nebuchadnetsar had him executed,
destroyed the city and its Temple & deported more of the population.

This event is presented as an exiling of "Israel" in punishment
for its disobiedience against the divine law, a fate
that the prophets had foretold {& Shlomo,
at the building of the Temple, reputedly some 400 years earlier
had anticipated ~ see 1 Kings 13}! It was about 60 years
{the book of Yirmeyahu makes it around 7o} before Cyrus {Koresh} of Persia
reversed the policy of deportation & allowed
deportees to return to their ancestral lands.
No wonder he also used to be called
'mashiach' & 'son
of g d'!!

Anyway,
Judaeans living @ Babylon
began to travel to Judah with money,
gifts and the looted Temple vessels, to reoccupy the land
and rebuild Yerushalayim and the Temple. {The names "Judah" & "Judaea"
derive respectively from Hebrew {Yehudah} & Greek/Latin {Ioudaia. Judaea}
names for the 'original' Jewish homeland, and so reflect the political and linguistic transitions
of the Second Temple period. "Judaea" was generally used for the Roman period ~ 64 BCE & onwards}.

The books of Ezrah & Nechemyah tell of two leaders under whom Yerushalayim was,
after some delay. rebuilt & repopulated, the Temple rededicated, the Law
of Mosheh read out and religious reforms instituted.

From the biblical perspective this was a divinely
decreed restoration of the true Israel,
even under an imperial regime,
for the "Jewish god"
had inspired
Cyrus
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