War between christian humanism & jewish materialism
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- The Jews are forcibly taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar
- The theatre
- 539 BC Babylon Falls
- Jewish Fifth Columnists
Neo-Babylonian culture: The brief resurgence of a "Babylonian" identity in the 7th to 6th centuries BC was accompanied by a number of important cultural developments, especially in Astronomy, Mathematics, and Philosophy Legacy: Babylonia, and particularly its capital city Babylon, has long held a place in Abrahamic religions as a symbol of excess and dissolute power. Many references are made to Babylon in the Bible, both literally and allegorically. The mentions in the Tanakh tend to be historical or prophetic, while New Testament references are more likely figurative, or cryptic references possibly to pagan Rome, or some other archetype. The legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel are seen as symbols of luxurious and arrogant power respectively. "Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities" (2 Kings 17:24). 7th Century BC - Greeks, Scythians and Macedonians, and Assyrians settled in Galilee and became “under Jewish law”.  Zoroaster (628 to 551 BCE) was an Iranian/Persian prophet and philosopher. Zarathushtra is a modern rendering. The Jews adopt Zoroastrian Dualism while in Babylon. The concept of Satan is first developed in their theology from this time. This was developed monotheism without Israel’s influence.
586 BC The Jews are forcibly taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. There is a fascinating theory dealing primarily with linguistics and geographical place names by Professor Kamal Salibi of American University in Beirut in his 1985 book Bible Came from Arabia. Others have agreed. Biblical minimalism states that there is actually very little archeology of ancient Israel in Palestine. Even some Biblical maximalists hold that it is likely that some or all of the patriarchs before Saul are better classified as fictional creations, with only the slightest relation to any real historical persons in the distant past. First Temple in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Babylonians. Nebuchadnezzar moved most of the people of Jerusalem to Babylon, leaving behind only the poor. The Babylonians then took Jerusalem. They broke down the walls around Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and took the content of the Temple to Babylon. This was the first Temple and what's known as the "first Temple period." The Romans would later destroy the second Temple. The official appointed by the Babylonians to rule the poor people remaining in Jerusalem was assassinated, as were other Babylonian representatives. In fear of retaliation, the remaining poor of Judah, including the prophet Jeremiah, fled to Egypt. 592-570 BC Ezekiel “I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. For they are impudent and stubborn children.”; “Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.”; “If he has oppressed the poor and needy, Robbed by violence, If he has exacted usury Or taken increase— Shall he then live? He shall not live!”; “The conspiracy of her prophets [media] in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.”; ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.” ****If the NT is anti-Semitic then the OT is too: (just a few examples!!) Isaiah said, “ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore…are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, under the clefts of the rocks?” (Is 57:3-4). “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward” (Isaiah 1:4). Hosea declares that not only does Israel “commit falsehood,” but “They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened” (Hosea 7:1, 2-4). “Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples” (Hosea 8:14ab); “Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor” (Hosea 9:1); “Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies…” (Hosea 10:13); “O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity” (Hosea 14:1). Micah declares that “the house of Jacob, and the princes of the house of Israel” not only “abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,” but “They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity” (Micah 3:9-10). “The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money…” (Micah 3:11). And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia (2 Chronicles 36:15-20). The LORD declared then, “Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee” (Exodus 33:5). Similar utterances are recorded Deuteronomy 31:27-29, Isaiah 30:8-9, Ezekiel 2:3-4, etc.[51] Rabbis and Jewish writers who label the New Testament anti-Semitic cannot have it both ways: they cannot accuse the New Testament of anti-Semitism when in fact the New Testament is not as harsh as the Old Testament in language. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________  Aesop or Esop (c. 620-564 BC), known for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was by tradition born a slave and was a contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-6th century BC in ancient Greece. In many of these stories animals speak and have human characteristics; see for example the Tortoise and the Hare or the Ant and the Grasshopper. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" derives), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Ant and the Grasshopper are well-known throughout the world.
 The theatre of ancient Greece, or ancient Greek drama, is a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece between c. 550 and c. 220 BC. Tragedy (late 6th century BC), comedy (486 BC), and the satyr play were the three main genres. Tragedy is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. From its obscure origins in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, or Schiller, to the recent Strindberg and Beckett, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change. Comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind of blunder or ugliness which does not cause pain or disaster. Satyr plays were an ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to burlesque. They featured choruses of satyrs, were based on Greek mythology, and were rife with mock drunkenness, brazen sexuality (including phallic props), pranks, sight gags, and general merriment. According to these definitions the life of Christ was a Tragedy if it ended with the Cross, but the Resurrection turns it into a Comedy.
539 BC Babylon Falls 539 BC Babylon Falls 539 BC Babylon Falls: 537 BC Daniel (?or Daniel written 165-163 is the image of the Jew who resisted the temptation to Hellenize.) Persian Empire: In 646 BC, The Assyrian king Ashurbanipal sacked Susa, which ended Elamite supremacy in the region. For over 150 years Assyrian kings of nearby Northern Mesopotamia were seeking to conquer Median tribes of Western Iran. Under pressure from the Assyrian empire, the small kingdoms of the western Iranian plateau coalesced into increasingly larger and more centralized states. In the second half of the 7th century BC, the Median tribes gained their independence and were united by Deioces. In 612 BC Cyaxares the Great, Deioces' grandson, and the Babylonian king Nabopolassar invaded Assyria and laid siege to and eventually destroyed Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, which led to the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Medes are credited with the foundation of Iran as a nation and empire, and established the first Iranian empire, the largest of its day until Cyrus the Great established a unified empire of the Medes and Persians leading to the Achaemenian Empire (c.550–330 BC). Cyrus the Great overthrew, in turn, the Medes, Lydians, and Babylonians, creating an empire far larger than Assyria. He was better able, through more benign policies, to reconcile his subjects to Persian rule; and the longevity of his empire was one result. The Persian king, like the Assyrian, was also "King of Kings”.. 
539 Persia captures Babylon. The Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, with an unprecedented military engagement known as the Battle of Opis. The famed walls of Babylon were indeed impenetrable, with the only way into the city through one of its many gates or through the Euphrates, which ebbed beneath its thick walls. Metal gates at the river's in-flow and out-flow prevented underwater intruders, if one could hold one's breath to reach them. Cyrus (or his generals) devised a plan to use the Euphrates as the mode of entry to the city, ordering large camps of troops at each point and instructed them to wait for the signal. Awaiting an evening of a national feast among Babylonians (generally thought to refer to the feast of Belshazzar mentioned in Daniel V), Cyrus' troops diverted the Euphrates river upstream, causing the Euphrates to drop to about 'mid thigh level on a man' or to dry up altogether. The soldiers marched under the walls through thigh-level water or as dry as mud. The Persian Army conquered the outlying areas of the city's interior while a majority of Babylonians at the city center were oblivious to the breach. The account was elaborated upon by Herodotus, and is also mentioned by passages in the Hebrew Bible. Cyrus claimed the city by walking through the gates of Babylon with little or no resistance from the drunken Babylonians. For their help in selling out Babylon, Cyrus later issued a decree permitting the Jews, to return to their own land (as explained in the Old Testament), to allow their temple to be rebuilt back in Jerusalem. Jewish Fifth Columnists: Babylon, writes Herodotus, was a well-defended city. But the Persians came on them unawares. The Bible talks about the suffering of the Jews in the Babylonian Captivity. But they were waxing rich and were deep in local politics, as many stayed in the city. After the fall of Babylon Cyrus heaped great favors on the Jews. This was a reward for their assistance. Once he took the city, Cyrus let them return to Palestine. He even donated a large sum to the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Persian Empire through “imperial authorization” created a federal arrangement by which the local communities gained a degree of legal autonomy while remaining under imperial rule. Under Ezra, the Torah was further compiled. Directory: 2016 2016 -> Senate, No. 627 State of new jersey 217th legislature 2016 -> 2017 afoCo Landmark Scholarship Program 2016 -> Instructions for the Preparation of Camera-Ready Contributions to the Conference Proceedings 2016 -> Strategic Plan South Sudan Country Office Context 2016 -> Original: English 2016 -> Step student Scholarships for Year 10-13 2016 -> Resolution 2016 -> American bar association adopted by the house of delegates Download 8.06 Mb. Share with your friends:
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