Babylonian Exile: Displacement, Disembodiment and the Consequent Loss of Their Identity Markers
Trinity Theological College Paper Presentation
Subject : Prophetic Responses to the Struggles of the People of God
Topic :Babylonian exile: Displacement and disembodiment and the consequent loss of their identity markers like King, Land, and Temple
Presenters : Avi Kiba and Om Thang
Lecturer : Miss Chumchano
Respondents:
Date :21st,Feb 2013.
Introduction
Of many crisis which Israel had experienced, none was more fraught with danger than the Babylonian Exile. This paper deals with the last days of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem, the Deportation of the Southern Kingdom (Judah), Displacement and Disembodiment, and the consequent lost of their identity markers like king, temple, and land.
1.The Last Days of Judah and the Destruction of Jerusalem (609-586 BCE). In the late 7th century BCE, the kingdom of Judah was a client state of the powerful Assyrian empire. In 606 BCE. Nebuchadnezzar at the death of his father, Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, became the ruler of the entire Fertile Crescent .In the last decades of the century Assyria was overthrown by Babylon, an Assyrian province with a history of former glory in its own right. Egypt, fearing the sudden rise of the Neo-Babylonian empire, seized control of Assyrian territory up to the Euphrates river in Syria, but Babylon counter-attacked and in the process Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, although the circumstances are obscure (606 BCE). Judah became a Babylonian client, but in the following years two parties formed at the court in Jerusalem: one pro-Egyptian and the other pro-Babylonian (II Kings 23; II Chronicles 35).1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father. He reigned three months in Jerusalem. Pharaih Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim
Subject : Prophetic Responses to the Struggles of the People of God
Topic :Babylonian exile: Displacement and disembodiment and the consequent loss of their identity markers like King, Land, and Temple
Presenters : Avi Kiba and Om Thang
Lecturer : Miss Chumchano
Respondents:
Date :21st,Feb 2013.
Introduction
Of many crisis which Israel had experienced, none was more fraught with danger than the Babylonian Exile. This paper deals with the last days of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem, the Deportation of the Southern Kingdom (Judah), Displacement and Disembodiment, and the consequent lost of their identity markers like king, temple, and land.
1.The Last Days of Judah and the Destruction of Jerusalem (609-586 BCE). In the late 7th century BCE, the kingdom of Judah was a client state of the powerful Assyrian empire. In 606 BCE. Nebuchadnezzar at the death of his father, Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, became the ruler of the entire Fertile Crescent .In the last decades of the century Assyria was overthrown by Babylon, an Assyrian province with a history of former glory in its own right. Egypt, fearing the sudden rise of the Neo-Babylonian empire, seized control of Assyrian territory up to the Euphrates river in Syria, but Babylon counter-attacked and in the process Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, although the circumstances are obscure (606 BCE). Judah became a Babylonian client, but in the following years two parties formed at the court in Jerusalem: one pro-Egyptian and the other pro-Babylonian (II Kings 23; II Chronicles 35).1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father. He reigned three months in Jerusalem. Pharaih Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim
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