Babylonian exile
Judean deportation era
The Babylonian exile was the period in the sixth century BCE when the kingdom of Judah was conquered and much of its population deported to Babylon.
This displacement, lasting roughly fifty years until the Persian conquest allowed return, profoundly shaped Jewish identity, scripture, and religious practice.
The phrase sometimes describes any forced displacement from homeland: The diaspora became a kind of permanent Babylonian exile.
- JudahPatriarch and namesake tribe
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- captivityState of being confined
- TorahJudaism's core scripture
- synagogueJewish house of worship
diaspora · lamentation · remnant · Cyrus the Great · Ezekiel · Second Temple · exodus · promised land · ancient Israel · monotheism · resilience · biblical · Jeremiah · Book of Daniel · Persian Empire · vassal state · prophecy · seventy years
- Ancient IsraelIsraelites, Jerusalem, Israel, twelve tribes, Judea
- Hebrew BibleTanakh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
- Biblical archaeologyDead Sea Scrolls, Masada, Jericho, ossuaries, ancient scrolls
- biblical punishmentsplagues, stoning, banishment, pestilence, destruction
- Jewish DiasporaJewish community, dispersion, Ashkenazi Jews, crypto-Jews, scattered
- Levantine HistoryPhoenicians, Canaanites, Israelites, Crusades, British Mandate
Babylonian exileSecond Temple period
Rebuilt sanctuary's five centuries
aliyah · homecoming · repatriation · homeland · resettlement