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Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 B.C.E.–70 C.E.) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jerusalem in the Second Temple period experienced dramatic growth as it achieved unprecedented political, religious, and spiritual prominence. Lee Levine traces the development of Jerusalem during this time—through its urban, demographic, topographical, and archeological features, its political regimes, public institutions, and its cultural and religious life. International recognition as a...

disappears from the sources after 536 and what happened to Zerubbabel between 535 and 522 remain mysteries.32 The number and composition of the Babylonian returnees are unclear. The almost identical lists in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 record a long series of names numbering about fifty thousand. These lists cannot be considered mere fabrications, nor do they refer to any single wave of returnees; the numbers are far too large for any one wave. Moreover, the lists appear in two different contexts (one
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