538 b.C.e.
1847
During the 500s B.C., a group of people called the Persians swept across southwest Asia. The Persians defeated the Chaldeans and took over Babylon. In 538 B.C. the Persian King Cyrus permitted Jews to return to Judah.
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The date often quoted is around 538 BCE. Tradition puts this event around 373 BCE.
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A:Yes. In 539 BCE, Cyrus of Persia permitted Jewish exiles to return to Judah.
The Babylonians conquered Judah in 586 BCE and exiled a large portion of the Jewish intelligentsia to Babylon. The Babylonians, in turn, were conquered in 539 B.C.E. by the Persians who treated the Jews with warmth and compassion, allowing them to return to Judah and rebuild their Great Temple in Jerusalem. The Persians were defeated by the Macedonian Greek Empire. While Alexander the Great was tolerant, his successors in the Middle East, the Syrian Greeks like Antiochus Epiphanes treated them harshly by trying to force them to worship idols of Greek gods in the Second Temple.
KING CYRUS THE GREAT conquered the Babylonian or Chaldean Empire and gave the Babylonian Jews permission to return to their homeland of Judah and rebuild their sacred Temple.
Coresh (the Persian King Cyrus).
Several tens of thousands of Jews returned; some under Zerubavel, and others a couple of decades later under Ezra and Nehemiah. They gained governorship of the land of Judea under the hegemony of the Persians, and rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem. See also:More about NehemiahJerusalem's historyTimeline
Cyrus, king of Persia, issued an edict inviting the Jews to return to their land from the Babylonian Captivity.
Many remained in Babylon, having established themselves there. About 40,000 of the Jewish aristocracy exiled there, their family and slaves, migrated to Judah on the promise of regaining the ancestral lands they claimed there.