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The Jewish Exile - How It Made The Bible

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/jewish-exile-how-it-made-bible/

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God & Work

What this book knows

The Babylonian exile was not Israel's ending but the crucible that forged the Hebrew Bible's deepest theological vision.

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In 586 BC, the Babylonian Empire came in and overthrew the nation of Israel, captured the Israelite people, and forced them to relocate and live in Babylon as exiles.
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The first generation is just totally traumatic, but their children wove themselves into the fabric of day to day life — not unlike refugee families that come to different countries.
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These events that happened late in Israel's history shaped how they retold their entire history going all the way back to the beginning.
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The words and writings of the prophets that everybody ignored before the Babylonian exile — all of a sudden these words are vindicated.
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belonging

We are sojourners and exiles — this is not our home; we're waiting for a new reality where all these problems are not right.
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When's a new David going to come and restore our land, free us from the foreign oppressors? They're still under occupation.
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