RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
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Question
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Nebuchadrezzar realized the need to reconstruct Judah.
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Solomon brought the Ark of the Covenant from its tent.
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The Jews drove Antiochus and the Greeks from Jerusalem.
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The Persians conquered Babylon and let the Jews go home.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Construction on the Second Temple began some time after the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire; it followed a proclamation by Persian king Cyrus the Great (see Edict of Cyrus) that ended the Babylonian captivity and initiated the return to Zion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Babylonians occupied Jerusalem in 586 B.C., destroyed the Temple, and sent the Jews into exile. About 50 years after that, the Persian King Cyrus allowed Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the destruction of the Second Temple, Judaism separated into a linguistically Greek and a Hebrew / Aramaic sphere. The theology and religious texts of each community were distinctively different. Hellenized Judaism never developed yeshivas to study the Oral Law.
Detailed explanation-4: -The beginning of the Second Temple period (586 BC-AD 70) is marked by the return of Jews to Jerusalem from their exile in Babylon in 538 BC. They were allowed to return under an edict issued by Cyrus King of Persia. By 515 BC the reinstated Jewish residents had completed building the Second Temple.