THE 1050 Lecture 14: THE 10.18.12

• School: St. John's University
• Department: THE - THEOLOGY
• Course: THE 1050
• Professor: Khan

Document Summary

There is no nation of israel, they are in a diaspora, scattered in the east. Israel is gone as a nation, as a people, they are scattered, especially in the. Babylonian captivity where the exiles find themselves (south mesopotamia) as servants of the babylonians. Ezekiel is the new prophets of the exile: he preaches (in the book of ezekiel) is that he draws plans for a new temple that is going to replace the temple of solomon in. Synagogue: meeting place for jews as they are in exile in a gentile world, it"s a community house, discuss jewish matters here. 539, second isaiah: persians overran the neo-babylonian empire and. Replaced it wit the persian empire with a man named cyrus the great wants to build a new temple. 538: the jews start to return one part goes back before 538, don"t know where to start.