I lived my life in Babylon ... not the holy song. What Jews were supposed not to do, this one has done. What the psalm says the faithful shouldn’t do, accept exile, is now the normal condition.

Birthday of Brian Josephson, a Welsh theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and ...

Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian culture for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat ...

It refers to the four exiles that the Jewish people would go through subsequent to the exile in Egypt. The first exile was the Babylonian exile which followed the destruction of the first Temple.

“The Book of Isaiah and the Neo-Babylonian Period” by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer investigates the “black hole” in the book that is the Babylonian Exile from three perspectives. First, it analyzes how the ...

The Jewish community of Syria has ancient roots, tracing back to the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE. Over time, Jews adapted the Arabic dialects of their neighbors, but Judeo-Syrian Arabic stood ...

In this book, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal focuses on heretic narratives of the Babylonian Talmud that share a common literary structure ... to arrive at new interpretations of familiar texts and ...