The Babylonian captivity served as a geopolitical deportation strategy to suppress Jewish rebellion.
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Reference sources and historical analyses indicate that Neo-Babylonian deportations served as a deliberate imperial strategy to suppress rebellions and assert control over conquered territories like the kingdom of Judah.
"In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile, commonly regarded as a pivotal period in the development of Judaism. The results are considered in the light of the wider Babylonian society and contrasted against a comparison group of Neirabian deportees. Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the
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# Babylonian Captivity
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Babylonian Captivity, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the Neo-Babylonian Empire’s conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 bce. The captivity formally ended in 538 bce, when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great, gave the Jews permission to return to Palestine. Historians agree that several deportations took place (each the result of uprisings in Palestine), that not all Jews were forced to leave their homeland, that returning Jews l
# What was the point of the Babylonian captivity?
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- Asked on: May 30, 2021
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What was the point of the [Babylonian captivity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity)? I could understand if a few royalty or nobility were taken hostage, but why tens of thousands? I see no suggestion that they were taken into slavery. What was the advantage to the Babylonians?
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## Accepted Answer — Score: 18
- By: LаngLаngС (81,552 rep)
- Answered on: May 30, 2021
Just like the better researchable Assyrians the Neo-Babylonians employed this as a proven tool to assert their control of the conquered lands and the remaining people there.
Once the head of the snake is removed, it is no longer needed to crush that head?
The Assyrian policy of deportation is analyzed as
> 1. punishment for rebellious behaviour;
> 2. liquidation of competing powers and weakening of potential centres of resistance;
> 3. formation of a layer of loyal subjects;
> 4. production of a homogeneous "Assyrian" territory;
> 5. acquisition of
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