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"HEBREW BIBLE HISTORY FROM THE DEPORTATION TO BABYLON TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MACCABEAN REBELLION IS A FABRICATION
Emmet Sweeney
The Dark Age of Jewish History
According to the history books, which base their narrative primarily upon the final books of the Hebrew Bible, the Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar II demolished the Temple of Solomon and led the people of Judah into captivity sometime between 595 and 570 BC. With the fall of Babylon, supposedly in 539 BC., King Cyrus of Persia inaugurated a pro- Jewish policy, a policy continued under Artaxerxes I who, around 450 BC, repatriated many of the exiled Jews to Palestine, where they began the construction of the Second Temple. This move, we are told, signalled a kind of golden age for the Jewish people, during which they repeopled the whole of Judea and Galilee and prospered both economically and culturally. According to the narrative, this age of flourishing Jewish life, was finally interrupted by the brutal policies of Antiochus IV, whose tyrannical rule eliticed the Maccabbean Revolt and War around 175 BC.
The problem with the above story is that none of it can be confirmed either by archaeology or by written history. On the contrary, the evidence of over a century of excavation tells quite a different tale. Here we find a complete absence of Jewish life during the entire Persian epoch. Even worse, barely a trace of any Jewish presence in the whole region can be found until the reign of the Seleucid King Antiochus III, whose patronage of the Jews is documented in written history and confirmed by excavation. The result is a three-and-a-half century long "Dark Age" in Jewish history, in an epoch where we are led to expect the complete opposite.
As far as I am aware, the first person to draw attention to the magnitude and potential significance of this problem was Professsor Gunnar Heinsohn, who passed away in February of last year. Yet the issue has also caused grave disquiet amongst the relatively small group of professional historians who specialize in the archaeology of the period. For it is a fact noted frequently by many commentators that the Jews, most assiduous of record-keepers, left not a single document or even note from the time of"
Via Var Valley YT channel
"Emmet Sweeney will reveal the true identity of the Neo-Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians. As well as who actually built the Second Temple and when was it constructed, contrary to popular beliefs, textbook dating, or Biblically Derived Dates."
Bible History From The Deportation To Babylon To The Building Of The Second Temple Is A Fabrication
https://www.youtube.com/live/lCNCinwL-z4?si=7_EBPnMFauU0-QQt
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