Jews in antiquity (or today) would share. ‘Diaspora’ means, in Greek, ‘scattering’ (English-speakers used to employ the term ‘the Dispersion’), and it has been shown that in ancient Jewish usage it generally had connotations of ‘exile’, brought about by divine judgment (van Unnik 1993). But we know that some, perhaps many, Jews in the ancient ‘Diaspora’ did not think of their location in that way, nor did all necessarily regard Palestine as their ‘homeland’ in any meaningful sense. Again we may grant