What was the Story of Israel's Release from Captivity?

Question

The story from the book of Isaiah from the Words of Comfort

Answer 1

The Exodus form Egypt or the Babylonian Captivity, which one...

The Babylonian Captivity:

Historical account
Three separate occasions are mentioned (Jeremiah 52:28-30). The first was in the time of Jehoiachin in 597 BCE, when the temple of Jerusalem was partially despoiled, and a number of the leading citizens were removed. After eleven years (in the reign of Zedekiah) a fresh rising of the Judaeans occurred; the city was razed to the ground, and a further deportation ensued. Finally, five years later, Jeremiah records a third captivity. After the overthrow of Babylonia by the Persians, Cyrus gave the Jews permission to return to their native land (537 BCE), and more than forty thousand are said to have availed themselves of the privilege. (See Jehoiakim; Ezra; Nehemiah and Jews.) Previously, the northern tribes had been taken captive by Assyria and never returned; survivors of the Babylonian exile were all that remained of the Children of Israel. The Persians had a different political philosophy of managing conquered territories than the Babylonians or Assyrians. Under the Persians, local personages were put into power to govern the local populace.

When the Israelites returned home however, they found a mixture of peoples practicing a religion very similar to their own, but not identical to it. Hostility grew up between the returning Jews and the Samaritans, the mixed-blood people of the region, which has continued to the present day. According to the Bible, the Samaritans were foreign peoples, settled into the area by the kings of Assyria, who had partially adopted the Israelite religion; although there are actually many other conflicting theories about the Samaritans origins, many of them may have simply been Israelites who had remained behind, and thus had had no part in the sweeping changes of the Israelite religion brought about among the captives. Or perhaps, alternatively; the fierce purity of the Jewish religion and cultural identity of the Babylonian Jews returning from exile, seventy years after their deportation, completely eclipsed the partial fate of the mixed group of Israelite survivors, who had practised paganism for hundreds of years in Israel (including the worship of a golden bull), and who had inter-married with the peoples sent into the territory by the Assyrians (and which was strictly forbidden by Mosaic Torah 'law', and punished by Nehemiah).

The Exodus, of course, is in the book of Exodus.

Answer 2

There is no archeological evidence showing the jews were ever in Egypt. Exodus is a fable. The Moses myth is also bunk.

The christian version: Moses was found floating on a reed raft by the queen of Egypt, raised as Ramses' brother and becomes co-ruler of Egypt before the "exodus" of jewish slaves building the pyramid.

The Egyptian version (for which the evidence and historical record fits): Ramses was found floating on a reed raft by the queen of Egypt, raised to become sole ruler of Egypt with paid contractors building the pyramid.

Are you suggesting there were *two* babies found floating on the Nile? Or, more likely, factual Egyptian history was twisted into jewish myth. (Equally false are the "12 tribes" of Israel; archeologists have shown they were villiages, not cities.)


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Answer 3

Daniel become between the vast style of Jews taken captive with the help of ability of Babylon. The Babylonian monarchy took the nobles of the captives to advance indoors the royal environs (as hostages and on the same time with the purpose of raising them as much as be leaders of their people who may well be reliable to Babylon) Daniel become one such toddlers of the nobility. (be wakeful - there are 3 diverse Jewish youths who're component of the tale) Daniel shown inteligence and initiative and rose to be an representative to the king -- and looks to have served 3 kings in succession. all of the jointly as, he saved user-friendly to the Jewish regulation. The episode of "the lion den" is one section the situation opposition tried to do away with him with the help of ability of installation "tests of loyalty" which he had to fail through fact of actuality they have been counter to Jewish regulation. (in yet yet another tale, Mihak, Shadrak, and Abednigo - Daniel's acquaintances, are forced good right into a buring furnace for comparable motives)

Answer 4

"Crash Course in Jewish History"
http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/