National Review8 年
Leonard Cohen and the Babylonian Exile of the Modern World
The normalization of Babylon, however, forces us to ask ourselves how we start in our modern lives to look for something beyond the things that drive us crazy. Our new situation is an exile ...
This week in Jewish history: The Dreyfus Affair and birth of Zionism
Birthday of Brian Josephson, a Welsh theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and ...
Arutz Sheva7 天
The darkness of Yavan lives on for us to overcome with light
The first exile was the Babylonian exile which followed the destruction of the first Temple. The second exile was the Persian-Median exile when the Purim story took place. After returning to ...
Cambridge University Press1 个月
The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah
“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 ...
National Geographic news2 个月
Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
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 ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs29 天
Fall of Assad revives interest in Judeo-Syrian Arabic, Syria’s nearly lost Jewish dialect
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 ...