Chapter Four The Babylonian Captivity and its Consequences

improper worship, this time Zedekiah=s and the chief priest=s having introduced Gentile rites into the ceremonies at the Jerusalem temple. Thus began what is popularly and sadly known as Athe Babylonian Captivity,@1 but what can more cheerfully be termed the beginning of Judaism in Mesopotamia. This was a chapter of

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