WORLD RELIGIONS

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JUDAISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
communities of Jews living outside of their ancient homeland (the scattering of the Jews)
A
diaspora
B
exile
C
Babylonian Exile
D
Cyrus the Great
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Diaspora, (Greek: “Dispersion”) Hebrew Galut (Exile ), the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered “in exile” outside Palestine or present-day Israel.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Jewish diaspora had migrated to Rome and to the territories of Roman Europe from the land of Israel, Anatolia, Babylon and Alexandria in response to economic hardship and incessant warfare over the land of Israel between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires from the 4th to the 1st centuries BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, “scattered, ‘’ or Galut , “exile") was the result of the expulsion of the Jews from the land of Israel, voluntary migrations, and, to a lesser extent, religious conversions to Judaism in lands other than Israel.

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