Season 5, Episode 24 (127)

The First Thousand Years Or SO: The babylonian exile: creativity

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King Cyrus the Great of Persia sacks Babylon and frees the Jews from their captivity. Now what? Some exiles return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple, but find that it isn't quite so easy to reintegrate with their fellow Israelites. Who, now, is a Jew?

Timeframe: 539 / 520 BCE