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And yet another great review from the same website:Your previous link was filled with lies and historical errors. It's a websites dedicated to Jew hatred with hundreds of articles about Jews this and Jews that.from my previous linkThe two separate nations of Israel in the north with capital at Samaria, and Judah in the south with capital at Jerusalem, went downhill at separate rates.
Israel went into paganism first and God allowed them to be taken captive in two separate waves by the Assyrians.
The Israelites never returned.
I'm sorry, I'll read that again....
The Israelites never returned.
Judah worshipped God a little longer, but God sent the Babylonians to take them into captivity about 120 years after Israel. Some Jews returned after 70 years to rebuild Jerusalem.
But enough remained in Mesopotamia for Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian, to say, 700 years later, about 100AD: "The ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers."
Around 200 BC some of the returned Jews lived as an autonomous people in the land of Israel, referred to, by most, as Judea, which at that time was controlled by the Seleucid king of Syria. The Jewish people paid taxes to Syria and accepted its legal authority, and by and large were free to follow their own faith, maintain their own jobs, and engage in trade.
By 175 BC Antiochus IV Epiphanes ascended to the Seleucid throne. At first little changed, but under his reign, the Temple in Jerusalem was looted, Jews were massacred, and Judaism was effectively outlawed. In 167 BC Antiochus ordered an altar to Zeus erected in the Temple.
The king may have been intervening in an internal civil war between the traditionalist Jews in the country and the Hellenized elite Jews in Jerusalem. These competed violently over who would be the High Priest, with traditionalists with Hebrew/Aramaic like Onias overthrown by Hellenizers with Greek names like Jason and Menelaus. As the conflict escalated, Antiochus took the side of the Hellenizers by prohibiting the religious practices the traditionalists had rallied around. This may explain why the king, in a total departure from Seleucid practice in all other places and times, banned the traditional religion of a whole people.
You Jew hating IslamoNazi dirtbags get attracted to sites like this like flies to shit.
"They note that, unlike the aftermath of the First Jewish-Roman War chronicled by Josephus..." Even the 1st war was bloody enough, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims, enslaved and killed. But I agree that Bar-Kohba was worse. BTW, there was Kitos War also, and the destruction it caused touched half of the Roman Middle East.
"Judea would not be a center of Jewish religious..." Depends on your definition. Safed (Tsfat) certainly was a great spiritual centre for Qabbalists since 17th century (if my memory serves me right). Jerusalem had enough value to observant Jews to settle there in the last years of the life and be buried. Judah Halevi is an example of this.
"This is pure propaganda, designed deliberately to make you feel that poor Jews were persecuted" They certainly many times hadn't an access to the Cave of the Patriarchs, Josef's Tomb and other holy places, as well as killed by Arabs. Perhaps you were mistaken about this. "They were just about as persecuted.Almohad Caliphate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Golden Age of tolerance indeed happened in Spain, but didn't last. I'm sorry.
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