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unusual facts about Babylonian exile



Books of Samuel

The most common view today is that an early version of the History was composed in the time of king Hezekiah (8th century BCE); the bulk of the first edition dates from his grandson Josiah at the end of the 7th, with further sections added during the Babylonian exile (6th century) and the work substantially complete by about 550 BCE.

Hebrew alphabet

Following the exile of the Kingdom of Judah in the 6th century BCE, in the Babylonian exile, Jews adopted the Assyrian script, which was another offshoot of the same family of scripts, evolved into the Jewish, or "square" script, that is still in use today and known as the "Hebrew alphabet".

Zvi Malnovitzer

In this particular work, he alluded to a modern-day exile – a sequel to the Exodus from Egypt, the Babylonian exile, or expulsion from Spain - by portraying an uprooted Jewish settlement from hills of Samaria.


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