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History 8 Near East Vocabulary

The Bible’s Buried Secrets Video Notes: One of the many effects of Babylonian captivity was the writing of the first five books of the Hebrew bible (the Torah). The Babylonians burned the temple of God when they invaded Israel, but some archaeologists believe that the elite priests were able to save the ancient scrolls from the fire before everything was destroyed. The scrolls were the beginnings of the Torah written by three different authors. It is in Babylonian captivity that Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers were put together to become the books that the world knows today. Archaeologists believe that Deuteronomy was written by just these priests while they were in Babylon. It is also in Babylon that the Jewish culture and religion that we know today was formed and that the monotheistic religion really took hold. Although the leaders of Israel tried to make their people worship only the one God, archaeologists have found small idols of women in Israelite homes until this point in time.

Vanderbilt College Website: In Babylon the Jewish culture we know today came to be. The priests didn't have a temple to sacrifice in, so instead of sacrifice they came up with a new way of worship. Part of the book of Psalms was also written during this time and the priests wrote all of the very specific laws down in the book of Deuteronomy during this time.

Sources: The Bible’s Buried Secrets Video; http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/gWZspa/Chapter%20Four.%20The%20Babylonian%20Captivity%20and%20Its%20Consequences.pdf;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/writers-bible.html