Early History of Babylonian History

The Early History of Babylonian Jewry
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The Early History of Babylonian Jewry

Excerpted from Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. From the accounts in Ezra and Nehemiah it is certain that only a small minority of Babylonian Jewry returned to rebuild the Land of Israel. The Murashu Tablets, the records of a prominent family of Babylonian bankers which mention numerous Jews, are usually […]