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Thompson writes in Ezekiel, Daniel : The Babylonians appear to have primarily relocated the Judean exiles to seven villages along the Kebar River (a major canal) near Nippur and Babylon. Exactly where Ezekiel came to live in exile is not clear, though his commissioning as a sentry for Israel occurre...

Jer. 29:4-7: This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, s...

This is interesting (and again I'm just making notes). Bodi suggests in The Book of Ezekiel and the Poem of Erra that Ezekiel may have been pro-Babylonian and influenced by a poem that laments the fall of Babylon: ... a particularly striking feature of the Book of Ezekiel is its pronounced pro-Babyl...

I don't have the book handy at the moment, but if I recall correctly Mason suggests in Josephus and the New Testament that Luke/Acts got the information about Theudas and Judas from a cursory reading of Ant. 20.5.1-2, which mentions Theudas in section 1 and then Judas in section 2, and that's always...

Ethan wrote: Very little of the OT pertains too Babylon, references too Babylon are also inaccurate, we have Daniel in the 2nd year of Nebuchadnezzar [603 BCE] and in the 3rd year of Cyrus [ 536 BCE] ( who apparently succeed Darius) , the Last king of the Chaldean dynasty was Nabonidus who reigned f...

Just seems to me that you're looking for insight in the wrong places, and I tried to point out out possible more fruitful avenues. I like to think of it as taking a fresh look at what is there, and the oldest things that are there are the OT and Josephus. I realize they may in their own ways be as ...

I'm only in note taking mode and nowhere near to offering any analysis. I just found it curious how much of the OT and later Judaism pertains to Babylon. And while I've always been aware of it, I've never really thought about it much. And before I can think about it more I have to take a fresh look ...

I took a look at what I can see of Rubenstein's and Neusner's books on Google books and am now wishing for a Reader's Digest version of Babylonian Jewish history. I don't think I'm ready yet for chapter titles like "From Phraates IV to Vologases I." In the meantime, I find myself thinking ...

So when Jude calls Jesus "our only Master and Lord" in 1:4 does he mean that God isn't their Master and Lord, only Jesus is? That would seem odd to me, if so. But seeing Jesus and God as the same being (with one being "Father" and the other being "Son" but otherwise bei...

Ben wrote: In this epistle the Lord seems to be Jesus the Son every time, with the possible (by no means certain) exception of the quotations of scripture. Jude's quotations of 1 Enoch in 1:9 and (presumably) the Assumption of Moses in 1:14 appear to me to call God "Lord." And one of the w...