• Yehud was a province of the Neo-Babylonian Empire established in the former territories of the Kingdom of Judah, which was destroyed by the Babylonians...
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  • the 6th-4th century BCE Yehud (Babylonian province), the preceding Neo-Babylonian province in the early 6th century BCE Yehud, Israel, a modern Israeli...
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    conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, the Persian province of Yehud was established to absorb the Babylonian province of Yehud, which, in turn, had been established...
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    to Babylon with many others (Jer 52:10–11). Judah became a Babylonian province, called Yehud, putting an end to the independent Kingdom of Judah (Because...
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    the new Babylonian province of Yehud for the remnant of the Jewish population in a part of the former kingdom. That was standard Babylonian practice...
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    Return to Zion (category Babylonian captivity)
    returnees settled in what became known as Yehud Medinata or Yehud. Yehud Medinata was a self-governing Jewish province under the rule of the Achaemenid Empire...
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    mostly unaffected by the invasion and became the center of the Babylonian province of Yehud, with Mizpah as its administrative center. Finkelstein, Israel;...
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    continued to be used under the rule of the Babylonians (the Yehud province), the Persians (the Yehud province), the Greeks (the Hasmonean Kingdom), and...
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    Zerubbabel (/zəˈrʌbəbəl/) was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province of Yehud and the grandson of Jeconiah, penultimate king of Judah. Zerubbabel...
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    of the kingdom became the capital of the new Babylonian province of Yehud. This was standard Babylonian practice: when the Philistine city of Ashkalon...
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    Julio-Claudian era Judea was legally part of the province of Syria." Josephus, Antiquities 17.355 & 18.1–2; Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah 8b; ibid, Sanhedrin...
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  • of ancient Israel and Judah Yehud (Persian province), a name introduced in the Babylonian period Judaea (Roman province) Or Yehuda, a city in the Tel...
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    Yehudim Bavlim, lit. 'Babylonian Jews'; Arabic: اليهود العراقيون, al-Yahūd al-ʿIrāqiyyūn) is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BCE...
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    former Kingdom of Judah was absorbed into the Neo-Babylonian Empire and reorganized to become Yehud province. Nebuchadnezzar transferred the administrative...
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    account, after the return from Babylonian captivity, arrangements were immediately made to reorganize the desolated Yehud Province after the demise of the Kingdom...
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    February 2022. The Babylonians translated the Hebrew name [Judah] into Aramaic as Yehud Medinata ('the province of Judah') or simply 'Yehud' and made it a...
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    Cyrus the Great (category Babylonian captivity)
    Cyrus' establishment of Yehud Medinata and subsequently rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem, which had been destroyed by the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. According...
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    Judahites to return to their homeland. This homeland was re-named as the Province of Yehud, which eventually became a satrapy of Eber-Nari. This period is covered...
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  • (the "Babylonian exile"). In 539 BC, Babylon itself fell to the Persian conqueror Cyrus, and in 538 BC, the exiles were permitted to return to Yehud Medinata...
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  • the kingdom became the capital of the new Babylonian province of Yehud Medinata. (This was standard Babylonian practice: when the Philistine city of Ashkalon...
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    Ezra and then Nehemiah to rebuild the city's walls and to govern the Yehud province within the Eber-Nari satrapy. These events represent the final chapter...
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    History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah. Library of Second Temple Studies 47. Vol. 1....
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  • Gəḏalyyā) was a biblical character who was reportedly a governor of Yehud province. He was according to the Bible also the son of Ahikam, who saved prophet...
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    ISBN 978-981-10-3214-1. The Babylonians translated the Hebrew name [Judah] into Aramaic as Yehud Medinata ('the province of Judah') or simply 'Yehud' and made it a...
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    in 604 BC, burned Ashkelon, and incorporated the territory in the Neo-Babylonian Empire; Philistia and its native population the Philistines disappear...
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    worthy of worship. Following the end of the Babylonian captivity and the subsequent establishment of Yehud Medinata in the 4th century BCE, Yahwism coalesced...
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    conquers Babylon. The Neo-Babylonian Empire falls and is replaced by the First Persian Empire. Establishment of the Province of Yehud (Judah), eventually part...
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    of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Yehud - A History of the Persian Province of Judah v. 1. T & T Clark. p. 355. ISBN 978-0567089984...
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    History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Yehud, the Persian Province of Judah. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0567089984...
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    had remained in the land, were "Israel". Judah, now called Yehud, was a Persian province, and the returnees, with their Persian connections in Babylon...
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