Season 5, Episode 23 (126)

The First Thousand Years Or SO: The babylonian exile: creativity

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The exile in Babylon upended the essential pillars of Israelite religion: king, god, temple, and land. The Israelites responded with immense theological creativity, reimagining these core tenets to preserve their ethnic identity. Prophets, priests, and scribes wrote new ideas and rituals that pointed to a new theology: monotheism. What we today call Judaism.

Timeframe: 586 BCE – 538 BCE