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February 3, 2015

Rare Clay Tablets Shed Light on the Babylonian Exile

At Israel’s Bible Lands Museum, on display for the first time is a collection of some 100 clay tablets documenting the lives of Jews exiled to Babylonia after the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE. These “Al-Yahudu” tablets, named for a Jewish settlement in Babylonia, are written in the Akkadian language and cuneiform script. Ilan Ben Zion writes:

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February 3, 2015

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  3. Rare Clay Tablets Shed Light on the Babylonian Exile

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