JUDAIC 320 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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Second temple period (516 bce - 70 ce) Class intro: judaea (land of israel) - where jews were a majority. Jews living outside of the land of israel. Israel was their land, but there were jews all over. The region: overview: eastern parts of mediterranean: there"s israel, modern israel is a small chuck of land. In history, the jews called it israel, but it wasn"t theres to call. Israel was a roman land: 10,000,000 people living there today. Israel: jordan river is the eastern border for the land. In the heart of land, a range of hills = watershed line of palestine = the. Second temple: south of central hill = negev, means dry, it"s a desert, judaean desert = between central hill/jerusalem & dead sea, home of. Timeline: jews had already been living in palestine for 100s of years, alexander conquers, dies, land split up between sleucus, ptolemy, etc, 167 bce: revolt in israel, by local jews/hasmoneans/maccabbees, against.
