Captivity Narratives Notes

The Babylonian Captivity was the name given to the period between 586 and 538 B.C when the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah lived in exile in Babylonia.

A man named Nebuchadnezzar ll captured Jerusalem and destroyed the first temple.

This happened in 586 B.C.

He them deported the Judeans to various Babylonian cities.

When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylonia in 538 B.C, he permitted the Jews to return to their homeland.

Cyrus the Great was the founder/ruler of the Achaemenid Persian empire from 549 to 530 B.C.

Achaemenid- Persian kings who ruled over a vast empire from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River from 549 to 330 B.C.

First and most famous captivity narrative was written by Mary Rowlandson.

She was taken captive and held for 11 weeks.

Her first captivity was published in 1682.

She was moved from camp to camp, suffering from want of food, and caring for other captives who were sick.

Citations

Johnson, Claudia Durst. "Rowlandson, Mary."Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2014. Web. 7 Nov. 2014.

Glatzer, Nahum N. "Babylonian Captivity." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2014. Web. 7 Nov. 2014.

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