EXILE

Exile • Insert Psalm 137 pic and

Excile
• In 587 B.C., the disaster
came to pass which
Jeremiah had been
predicting. The Babylonian
king, Nebuchadnezzar,
destroyed Jerusalem and
led the people into Exile.
Exile
• Lamentations means .. • Their sorrow eventually
produced the plaintive
Lamentations.
Exile
• Insert pic of ezekiel and
second isaiah
RESTORATION
Restoration
• Tensions involved in rebuilding • Insert books of ezra and
the city and the temple can be nehemiah
sensed in the writings of Haggai
and Zechariah 1 (Zec. 1 – 8)
Restoration
• The priests continued their important editing work. Sometime in the
fifth century B.C. these authors, whom we call all together “the
Priestly tradition,” put the Pentateuch into its final form.
Restoration
• pic of pentateuch, deuteronomy, ruth