SECOND TEMPLE

The Second Temple Period

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Second Temple Period

Second Temple period begins the return to Zion in 538 BCE and continued until after the rebellion. Bar-Kochba 135 AD. This period called, the Second Temple, served a crucial role in religion in Israel and Jewish life during this period, also Jewish life in Israel and the lives of Jews living outside Israel. Another characteristic of this period is the Land of Israel control various empires and is subject to Lsltonn of these empires which affects the lives of Jews. Also during this period of Jewish life are two separate planes, in Israel and Jewish communities outside to Israel. Jews in exile in Babylon: the economic situation, and their views of religion.

First Temple period when David is in the Kingdom of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hits in this kingdom, and kept many of its inhabitants were exiled from their land. At 586, BC Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple, and most residents of the Kingdom of Judah were exiled to Babylon. Yehuda emptied of its inhabitants. The goal exile of the Jews was their public sentiment will be weakened and their desire to remain as a people will almost thus assimilate into other nations (Flusser, 2007).

While the exile brought feelings of despair among the people, but the attempt to understand the new reality of the Jews in exile causes prophets to the Jews to their solutions and explanations. Prophet characterized the period was the prophet Ezekiel: Ezekiel prophecies concerning the people said exile and conquest of Judea by the Babylonians did not demonstrate the weakness of the God of Israel, but on the contrary, because the Jewish people sin religious approached the pagans and sin of sins moral, use God king of Babylon to punish the people. Punishment is eternal; the Jewish people should fix their religious life and moral and only then the relief to the people of Israel. During the exile, the prophets activities brought spiritual recovery of the exiles in Babylon. The Jewish people in exile maintain monotheistic faith and over time there has been a material recovery. The exiles grew accustomed to life in Babylon, and attitude toward them got better and better. Kingdom of Persia; Cyrus's policy toward the nations in the Persian Empire

During the reign of King Nboaid weakness, Babylonian empire reaches its climax. In 559 BCE Persia comes to power King Cyrus. He manages to capture every neighbor of Persia, as well as occupying the shores of the Greek cities of Asia Minor. The news of his conquests reached the realms controlled - by Babylon and the enemies of Nboaid collaborated with Cyrus and the rest The Jews saw him as someone to rescue them from their exile. Cyrus attacked Babylon and conquered it at 539 BCE A large part of his army of Nboaid around the side of Cyrus without a fight. The priests of Babylon and the Jews were the reign of Cyrus was not a conqueror but Cmshachrrm ...