by hadassah | Jul 20, 2008 | The Restoration
The Hebrew Bible Chapter five of the Book of Daniel describes the royal banquet of King Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was the Babylonian emperor who had conquered Jerusalem, exiled its people, destroyed the Temple and carried off its sacred...
by hadassah | Jul 15, 2008 | The Restoration
Overview 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. Overview- Jews in the Persian Period (520-332 BCE) …and the Rise 537, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem- Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd.,...
by hadassah | Jul 13, 2008 | The Restoration
Last time we started looking at the psalms and a number of different genres or forms in which the psalms appear. We were just looking at a psalm last time which seems to explicitly reject the Deuteronomistic interpretation of the national history and the national...
by hadassah | Jul 13, 2008 | The Restoration
The Hebrew Bible Soon after the return of the first exiles, sacrifices were renewed, even before the Temple was rebuilt. 3-1 When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being settled in their towns—the entire people assembled as one man in Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua...
by hadassah | Jul 13, 2008 | The Restoration
The Hebrew Bible By 520 B.C.E., despite the fact that the Temple had still not been rebuilt, sacrifice began, as explained in this excerpt from the book of Ezra. 3-1 When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being settled in their towns—the entire people assembled...
by hadassah | Jul 13, 2008 | The Restoration
Already before the rebuilding of the Temple commenced, the Samaritans, a mixed people made up of descendants of the North Israelites who were left in the land after the exile by Assyria in 722 B.C.E. and foreigners brought in by the Assyrians, asked to participate....
