political groups Jesus encountered. THE INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD The last sections of the Old Testament illustrate Darius the Persian as the ruler over Persia. At the time Judea was part of the Persian Empire. In 597 B.C. Judea was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar who was the King of Babylon this ended Jewish independence. Nebuchadnezzar had decided to take certain knowledgeable Jews into captivity. It was there in Babylon the Prophet Ezekiel began working on this particular group to teach them and instruct
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of the Second Temple period‚ construction of the Temple was not completed until 516 BCE. The Temple was largely respected during the Persian and Hellenistic periods. However‚ in 167 BCE‚ the Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes ordered a sacrifice to be made to Zeus in the Temple. This act of desecration‚ along with Antiochus’ persecution and execution of many Jews‚ ultimately sparked the Maccabean Revolt. After Judas Maccabeus’ victory against the Seleucids‚ he ordered the Second Temple to be cleansed
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nearutopian kingdom in which Israel would be an autonomous state. Such a one-sided interpretation of prophecy has caused Israel to miss the suffering Savior of Isaiah 53 and to wander in a spiritual haze for thousands of years. The failure of the Jews to recognize and accept their Messiah was not‚ however‚ surprising to God. The last six chapters of the prophecy of Zechariah center on the advent of the Jewish Messiah. Within those chapters‚ God chronicled many of the events leading up to both
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He gave authority to Haman that he did not even recall about. Haman approached him about annihilating the jews and “the king agreed confirming his decision by removing his signet ring and giving it to Haman”(Esther 3:6) which states that he can make a law of his choice. Time passed and jews were in distress‚ likewise Mordecai. Xerxes had a banquet with his wife and Haman. He asked his wife what was troubling her. She said that haman was annihilating
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directed at the abandonment of God‚ and it can only be stopped when the Jews recover their true faith in God. The final Jewish apocalypse author who attempts to create a theodicy for the Jewish people is the author of Daniel 8 and 9. In Daniel 8‚ Daniel has a vision of a battling goat and ram. The ram by the river represents the Persian Empire‚ while the goat in the west with one horn represents the Greek Empire. The two empires battle‚ and the goat becomes the victor. Then‚ from the single horn
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Impact of Nazi Policy on Jews 1933- 45 Once the Nazis came to power‚ Jews were subjected to increased discrimination‚ though anti- semitic policy developed in a typically haphazard manner. In 1993 some Jews were deprived of their jobs and in 1935 all lost their citizenship. The pogroms of the Night of Broken Glass in November 1938 symbolised the radicalisation of the regime. The Nazis‚ by then politically and economically secure‚ were free to pursue their aim of Jews out of German life. Jewish
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the Turkish border. (Saban‚ 9). 2. How did Jews arrive in Kurdistan and Zakho? Kurdish Jews descend from the 10 tribes exiled from Israel by Assyrian rulers. More specifically‚ they descend from the tribes of Dan and Naphtali. The Tanach mentions Jewish exile to Habor‚ Medes‚ and other towns along the Gozan River‚ now found in modern Kurdistan. King Tiglath-Pileser III also sent the 10 tribes to Assyria (now known as Kurdish Iraq). Not all Kurdish Jews have roots in 8th century Palestine. In the
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originate from the age of Egyptian pharaohs‚ modernity can be a relative term. The Jewish people have one of the oldest traditions of any culture on earth and have been a part of nearly every major civilization‚ from the ancient Egyptians‚ to the Persians‚ Romans‚ Byzantines‚ Ottomans and British empires. Over the centuries‚ they have traditions both of successful self-governance but also of persecution‚ hostility and exile. The ability of the Jewish people to maintain their ethnic and religious
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What happened to the Jews? After Germany conquered Poland in 1939‚ the persecution reached terrifying new levels. Polish Jews were rounded up and forced to live in ghettoes‚ where disease and starvation were constant threats. Why were the Jews persucuted ? Also in 1933‚ the Nazis began to put into practice their racial ideology. The Nazis believed that the Germans were "racially superior" and that there was a struggle for survival between them and inferior races. They saw Jews‚ Roma (Gypsies)‚
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your people‚ shall be my people and your God‚ my God” Ruth to Naomi (Jackson‚ Speilvogel) The religion of Judaism has a very long and exquisite type of history‚ because it is full of getting conquered. In the beginning‚ the Egyptians conquered the Jews (Jackson‚ Speilvogel‚ pg. 81-82) When the Egyptians conquered; they put the Jewish people into slavery. However‚ in 1290 B.C.‚ a very important person named Moses was by a burning bush. While by the burning bush‚ God talked to Moses. God said that
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