(RNS) Feeling increasingly alienated and even persecuted, some Christians are adopting a favorite image from Scripture -- that of the Babylonian captivity. (RNS) From the moment they set foot on North ...

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This is Dutch artist Jacob van Loo’s depiction of Judean Gov. Zerubbabel showing King Cyrus the Great of Babylon his plan to rebuild Jerusalem. Van Loo lived from 1614-70. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

The return to the homeland after the Babylonian captivity was not easy. Seventy years had passed in a foreign land, far from the Promised Land. The people of God returned to the ravaged Jerusalem and ...

Babylon traces the story of a Jewish family, violently wrested from its land in Judea after the destruction of Solomon’s Temple, through the family’s years of exile in Babylon. The story begins in 586 ...

Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church is a theological treatise, one of the major tracts published by Martin Luther in 1520. In this work Luther examines the seven sacraments of the ...

In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an independent sovereign Israel nation till such an independent sovereign Israel ...