The Babylonian Exile was a very painful period in Jewish history in which King Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and moved 20,000 people 900 miles east to Babylon, 50 miles ...

Saturday night, August 2nd is the Jewish fast day, “9th of Av.” The Fast of Av commemorates the ancient destructions of the ...

If there is one book that is emphasized more than all else in the Orthodox Jewish world it’s the Babylonian Talmud, ...

(RNS) Feeling increasingly alienated and even persecuted, some Christians are adopting a favorite image from Scripture -- that of the Babylonian captivity. Painting of Babylon captivity, circa 1920.

The only one out of 150 psalms to be set in a particular time and place, it relates to the Babylonian Exile – the period between 587-586 B.C. in Israel’s history, when Jews were taken captive ...