Babylon and the Bible
The Ancients
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The Origins of the Jews Returning From Babylon
There must have been some elements that went into slavery and of course disappear completely from the record so let's not over egg the idea that everybody was happy to be there. The trauma especially if you were separated from loved ones back home or sold off or moved on to a different part of Mesopotamia was horrific but by and large the evidence available to us shows far more evidence for assimilation than for oppression. Is this reflected actually at all in Nebuchadnezzar's portrayal sometimes we seem to have this idea of him as the big baddie but is that really true in the biblical portrayal of him? We'll go on to the Jews returning from Babylon works some of them returning in
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