Ancient tablets reveal life of Jews exiled in Babylon

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Ancient tablets reveal life of Jews exiled in Babylon
Luke Baker, Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 12:24 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 12:35 PM EST
JERUSALEM – A new exhibition of ancient clay tablets discovered in modern-day Iraq is shedding light for the first time on the daily life of Jews exiled to Babylon some 2,500 years ago.
The exhibition is based on more than 100 cuneiform tablets, each no bigger than an adult's palm, that detail transactions and contracts between Judeans driven from, or convinced to move from, Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC.
Archaeologists got their first chance to see the tablets -- acquired by a wealthy London-based Israeli collector -- barely two years ago. They were blown away.
"It was like hitting the jackpot," said Filip Vukosavovic, an expert in ancient Babylonia, Sumeria and Assyria who curated the exhibition at Jerusalem's Bible Lands Museum.
"We started reading the tablets and within minutes we were absolutely stunned. It fills in a critical gap in understanding of what was going on in the life of Judeans in Babylonia more than 2,500 years ago."
Nebuchadnezzar, a powerful ruler famed for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, came to Jerusalem several times as he sought to spread the reach of his kingdom.
Each time he came -- and one visit coincided with the destruction of Jerusalem's first temple in 586 BC -- he either forced or encouraged the exile of thousands of Judeans.
One exile in 587 BC saw around 1,500 people make the perilous journey via modern-day Lebanon and Syria to the fertile crescent of southern Iraq, where the Judeans traded, ran businesses and helped the administration of the kingdom.
"They were free to go about their lives, they weren't slaves," Vukosavovic said. "Nebuchadnezzar wasn't a brutal ruler in that respect. He knew he needed the Judeans to help revive the struggling Babylonian economy."
The tablets, each inscribed in minute Akkadian script, detail trade in fruits and other commodities, taxes paid, debts owed and credits accumulated.
The exhibition details one Judean family over four generations, starting with the father, Samak-Yama, his son, grandson and his grandson's five children, all with Biblical Hebrew names, many of them still in use today.
"We even know the details of the inheritance made to the five great-grandchildren," said Vukosavovic. "On the one hand it's boring details, but on the other you learn so much about who these exiled people were and how they lived."
Vukosavovic describes the tablets as completing a 2,500-year puzzle. While many Judeans returned to Jerusalem when the Babylonians allowed it after 539 BC, many others stayed and built up a vibrant Jewish community that lasted two millennia.
"The descendants of those Jews only returned to Israel in the 1950s," he said, a time when many in the diaspora moved from Iraq, Persia, Yemen and North Africa to the newly created state.
Cuneiform tablets are displayed during an exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, February 3, 2015. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)

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[petros]

Exiled?

 

[MHz]

Exiled?

Just like their own holy books say, I'll even post the relevant verses that brought that on so you can compare it to the tablets you will never see. Preview is they started killing people God sent to them and various other practices that breached the 10 Laws they say they guides their culture. btw A flaw that was never corrected.

 

[petros]

Abraham was from Ur.

 

[MHz]

So was Job. Was there a point?

"Nebuchadnezzar, a powerful ruler famed for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, came to Jerusalem several times as he sought to spread the reach of his kingdom.
Each time he came -- and one visit coincided with the destruction of Jerusalem's first temple in 586 BC -- he either forced or encouraged the exile of thousands of Judeans."

That's certainly a departure from the OT's version and that book is claimed to be letter perfect in every way, a vague reference is made about Daniel and his 3 friends being in charge of an administrator of the Province of Babylon.

""They were free to go about their lives, they weren't slaves," Vukosavovic said. "Nebuchadnezzar wasn't a brutal ruler in that respect. He knew he needed the Judeans to help revive the struggling Babylonian economy.""
About this point I started to call bull**** and take it for a PR propaganda. Conquer a nation and then hire them to run yours, only in fairyland.

Here is God's version of why the exile took place and this is the tipping point rather than the whole reason. Jereniah had just missed being killed by the very ones God sent him to. Jer:23 is a decent list of the grievances God had against them.

Jer:25:1-13:
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah,
even unto this day,
that is the three and twentieth year,
the word of the LORD hath come unto me,
and I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking;
but ye have not hearkened.
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them;
but ye have not hearkened,
nor inclined your ear to hear.
They said,
Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings,
and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
And go not after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands;
and I will do you no hurt.
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me,
saith the LORD;
that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Because ye have not heard my words,
Behold,
I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the LORD,
and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant,
and will bring them against this land,
and against the inhabitants thereof,
and against all these nations round about,
and will utterly destroy them,
and make them an astonishment,
and an hissing,
and perpetual desolations.
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth,
and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride,
the sound of the millstones,
and the light of the candle.
And this whole land shall be a desolation,
and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
And it shall come to pass,
when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon,
and that nation, saith the LORD,
for their iniquity,
and the land of the Chaldeans,
and will make it perpetual desolations.
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,
even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

 

[Cliffy]

That is not god's version, Htz. That is the Jewish version.

 

[MHz]

Apparently not. Didn't you just get the update, Babylon was a rescue mission by Jews for a foreign King who couldn't run his own nation, are there now two Jewish version that conflict drastically with each other yet both just happen to portray Jews being a magical people who never fuk up anything.

Is that going to be the theme of why Jews get to run Canada and the US to their specific standards and the locals can go fuk themselves?

 

[petros]

So was Job. Was there a point?

"Nebuchadnezzar, a powerful ruler famed for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, came to Jerusalem several times as he sought to spread the reach of his kingdom.
Each time he came -- and one visit coincided with the destruction of Jerusalem's first temple in 586 BC -- he either forced or encouraged the exile of thousands of Judeans."

That's certainly a departure from the OT's version and that book is claimed to be letter perfect in every way, a vague reference is made about Daniel and his 3 friends being in charge of an administrator of the Province of Babylon.

""They were free to go about their lives, they weren't slaves," Vukosavovic said. "Nebuchadnezzar wasn't a brutal ruler in that respect. He knew he needed the Judeans to help revive the struggling Babylonian economy.""
About this point I started to call bull**** and take it for a PR propaganda. Conquer a nation and then hire them to run yours, only in fairyland.

Here is God's version of why the exile took place and this is the tipping point rather than the whole reason. Jereniah had just missed being killed by the very ones God sent him to. Jer:23 is a decent list of the grievances God had against them.

Jer:25:1-13:
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah,
even unto this day,
that is the three and twentieth year,
the word of the LORD hath come unto me,
and I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking;
but ye have not hearkened.
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them;
but ye have not hearkened,
nor inclined your ear to hear.
They said,
Turn ye again now every one from his evil way,
and from the evil of your doings,
and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
And go not after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands;
and I will do you no hurt.
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me,
saith the LORD;
that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Because ye have not heard my words,
Behold,
I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the LORD,
and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon,
my servant,
and will bring them against this land,
and against the inhabitants thereof,
and against all these nations round about,
and will utterly destroy them,
and make them an astonishment,
and an hissing,
and perpetual desolations.
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth,
and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride,
the sound of the millstones,
and the light of the candle.
And this whole land shall be a desolation,
and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
And it shall come to pass,
when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon,
and that nation, saith the LORD,
for their iniquity,
and the land of the Chaldeans,
and will make it perpetual desolations.
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,
even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

My money is on the Israelites winning.

 

[MHz]

You mean 'have already won', right? I would prefer to be surrendering to somebody that had some scruples but then it's an imperfect world isn't it?

That is not god's version, Htz. That is the Jewish version.

I wonder if Moses knew when 'he wrote the Torah' that the 120 years from Ge:6 would be referencing his own death?

 

[darkbeaver]

Abraham was from Ur.

Ur was and is the primordial fire. You know how much money they've spent digging up sand looking for that idea. Oh by the way the new owner of those tablets should be going on trial for pocession of looted Iragi historical treasures. In the 1950s the ancient native Iragi Jewish community was destroyed by Israel.

 

[MHz]

This would be from the American invasion and looting of the museums.
Revealed: the real story behind the great Iraq Museum thefts - Middle East - World - The Independent

The story of what really happened inside the Iraq Museum when thousands of valuable antiquities were stolen in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 US invasion has been revealed in a new book.

Written by the chief investigator, it says there were three separate thefts, at least one of which was an inside job, another the work of professionals, and a third where fleeing Iraq military had left open a door which let in the looters. At least 13,864 objects were stolen, making it the biggest museum theft in history.

But the book reveals that, with an estimated 500,000 objects in the museum and thieves having the run of the place for 36 hours, the wonder is the loss was not far closer to the original, inaccurate, reports of 170,000 items. And the efforts of Iraqi, US and Italian officials, plus police and customs worldwide, have so far led to the recovery of 5,400 items, nearly 700 from inside the US and Britain.

 

[darkbeaver]

That is not god's version, Htz. That is the Jewish version.

Actually it's a Jewish version of a Greek version of an Egyptian/Chaldean version of something else altogether.

This would be from the American invasion and looting of the museums.
Revealed: the real story behind the great Iraq Museum thefts - Middle East - World - The Independent

The story of what really happened inside the Iraq Museum when thousands of valuable antiquities were stolen in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 US invasion has been revealed in a new book.

Written by the chief investigator, it says there were three separate thefts, at least one of which was an inside job, another the work of professionals, and a third where fleeing Iraq military had left open a door which let in the looters. At least 13,864 objects were stolen, making it the biggest museum theft in history.

But the book reveals that, with an estimated 500,000 objects in the museum and thieves having the run of the place for 36 hours, the wonder is the loss was not far closer to the original, inaccurate, reports of 170,000 items. And the efforts of Iraqi, US and Italian officials, plus police and customs worldwide, have so far led to the recovery of 5,400 items, nearly 700 from inside the US and Britain.

The Catholic/Zionists did the same looting and destruction of culture inin central and south America.