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An ancient port city built by King Herod the Great that once rivaled Carthage and Alexandria and was the center of early Christianity Acts , Acts The importance of the Galilee in the life and ministry of Jesus is immeasurable.
The dramatic miracle of walking on water Mark The northern Kingdom of Israel lost its independence to the Assyrians in bce and never again recovered its own identity. The southern Kingdom of Judah was overrun by the Babylonians in bce and its royal family, its aristocracy, its priests, and its educated classes were taken off into Exile in Babylonia.
Thus began the long period of the dispersion of the Jews among the nations, a fact which has lasted until the present. Although the Persians, after conquering Babylonia, allowed the Jews to return, not all Jews chose to do so.
Those who did return rebuilt Jerusalem and the Temple, but were never granted self-rule. From bce right up until ce the Holy Land was ruled by others than Jews. The majority of Jews increasingly lived outside of the Holy Land in the Diaspora, as it is called. After Persian rule came the Greeks and finally the Romans.
There was one brief interlude to foreign rule of the Holy Land. In bce the Jews revolted against their Greek overlords, who ruled from Damascus.
It started when the Greek rulers tried to enforce Greek culture on the Jews, burning their holy writings and destroying their synagogues. The Jewish people had a temporary victory which enabled them, for a little over three years, to establish an independent state and even issue their own coinage.
The Greeks proved too powerful in the end and once again the Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land became a subject people. Yet after the revolt there developed a high-priestly family known as the Hasmoneans, who exerted considerable local influence in Jerusalem and its environs, provided they did not challenge their political overlords.
Greek rule of the Holy Land as a whole was exchanged for Roman rule with the arrival of Pompey in 63 bce. Not long after this Julius Caesar appointed, as procurator of the province of Palestine, a man from the area called Antipater, who was not a Jew but an Idumaean.
The Idumaeans were the descendants of the ancient Edomites and they had been forced to adopt the Jewish religion during the time of the Hasmoneans.
After Antipater died of poisoning, his son Herod established himself as King of Judea and ruled the Holy Land with an iron hand for nearly forty years, with the acquiescence of the Romans. After Herod the Great the Romans divided the Holy Land into separate areas of local government, known as tetrarchies, and eventually appointed their own procurator over Judea. There was much diversity among the Jewish people. Some Jews were thoroughly Hellenised and Romanised; they were reasonably satisfied with the state of affairs.
At the other extreme were restive activists, longing for an opportunity to re-establish an independent state. This restiveness reached a climax some forty years after the death of Jesus in the year 66 ce.
According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, there was much division among the Jews. It amounted almost to civil war in Jerusalem, between the activist Zealots at one extreme and more peace-loving Jews at the other. One is reminded of the current conflict in Afghanistan between the Taleban and the rest. The Zealots stormed the Temple Mount and took control. So the Roman Emperor Vespasian sent his son Titus with three legions to restore order.
The Romans besieged Jerusalem, but it was not until 70 ce that they finally crushed all Jewish resistance and expelled the remaining inhabitants.
They destroyed the city and Temple on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Ab, almost the exact anniversary of the destruction of the first Temple by the Babylonians in bce. It has remained a Jewish day of mourning until the present. This has become the famous Wailing Wall, to which devout Jews turn to mourn their past and to renew their hopes for the future.
It is a powerful symbol for Jewry all round the world. For most of the next two thousand years only a tiny number of Jews lived in the Holy Land; the vast majority of the Jewish people have lived outside of the Holy Land. Yet they have always retained the hope that some day they would return.
The Jews of the Diaspora have been frequently discriminated against, much more in the Christian world than in the Islamic world. By the fourth century Christians had come to regard Jews as the crucifiers of Christ and, for that reason, judged them to be condemned by God to perpetual migration.
In much of Europe during the Middle Ages, Jews were denied citizenship, barred from holding government posts, excluded from membership in the professions and denied ownership of agricultural land.
From the Middle Ages came the practice of segregating the Jewish populations into ghettos and this lasted until the early nineteenth century. Forced often to become the rag and bone collectors, this industry led them later to become the great traders of clothing and footwear. Some became prominent in banking and money-lending. Only Jews who had converted to Christianity were allowed to remain.
As a result of these mass expulsions the centres of Jewish life shifted from Western Europe and Germany to Poland and Russia. But in Russia, widespread anti-Jewish riots, or pogroms, broke out in Jews were stripped of their rural landholdings and several million Jews migrated to the United States in the next four decades. The most brutal anti-Semitism of all time was that of the Nazis inspired by Adolf Hitler — This took the form of deliberate genocide.
An estimated 5,, Jews were exterminated in such death camps as Auschwitz. The memory of this more than anything else motivated the modern Zionist movement, culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel. Though anti-Semitism still exists, this modern tragedy led to world-wide sympathy with the Jewish people. So after nearly two thousand years the Jews have returned to the Holy Land to claim what they believe is rightfully theirs.
They have a very strong claim to the Holy Land. Unfortunately for them, however, the Holy Land has long been inhabited by others. To them we turn in the next article. His new book, Christianity without God , appeared in Notes 1. Deuteronomy Genesis —4. Genesis 7.
Genesis Genesis 12— Joshua 39 7. See Genesis 37— This Side of Peace. New York; Simon and Schuster , Bergen, K. Neuhaus, and G. Rubeis eds. New York: Friendship Press, Bickerton, I. New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs, All rights reserved.
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