WORLD RELIGIONS

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JUDAISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The scattering of Jews outside of Israel and Judah is called the ____
A
Talmud
B
Zealots
C
Diaspora
D
Synagogue
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: , romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The history of the diaspora is usually taken to begin in 587/6 bce, when Nebuchadnezzar took the inhabitants of Jerusalem into captivity. When permitted to return by Cyrus the Persian king, many remained voluntarily in Babylonia.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -: the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland.

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