RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
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Question
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Jews became scattered over a wide area.
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Jews paid heavy taxes to pay for a new temple.
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Jews began to learn from rabbis instead of priests.
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Jews depended on oral tradition to remember their history.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the whole, however, Judaism in the Diaspora was able to accommodate a great deal of Hellenistic culture. The normal language for Jews in the Diaspora was Greek. It was in the Diaspora that the Bible was translated from Hebrew into a Greek vernacular.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jewish diaspora began during the Assyrian conquest and it continued on a much larger scale during the Babylonian conquest, during which the Tribe of Judah was exiled to Babylonia along with the dethroned King of Judah, Jehoiachin, in the 6th century BCE, and taken into captivity in 597 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.