Babylonia (exile era)
Babylonian exile
Babylonia in the exile era refers to Mesopotamia (Iraq) during and after the Babylonian Exile, when the population of the Kingdom of Judah was deported by Nebuchadnezzar following the destruction of the First Temple (586 BCE). The biblical books of Ezekiel and Daniel are set among the exiles in Babylonia, and the Esther narrative unfolds in the Persian period that followed; this community became the seed of the great Babylonian Jewish center.
7 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Baruch HaSofer
Baruch ben Neriyah (Baruch the Scribe) (-630–?)
Yechezkel HaNavi
Yechezkel ben Buzi (Ezekiel) (-622–-570)
Daniel
Daniel (in the lions' den) (-620–-538)
Yehoshua the Kohen Gadol
Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak (the Kohen Gadol) (-575–-500)
birth and upbringing in the exile (inferred) -575–-538
Zerubavel, Governor of Judah
Zerubavel ben Shealtiel (Zerubbabel) (-570–-500)
birth and upbringing in the exile (inferred) -570–-538
Zecharyah HaNavi
Zecharyah ben Berechyah (Zechariah the Prophet) (-550–-480)
origin in the exile (inferred) -550–-538
Mordechai HaTzaddik
Mordechai ben Yair (of Megillat Esther) (-500–-420)