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12:25 Apr 22, 2016 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - History / History of Civilisations | |||||||
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| Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 13:43 | ||||||
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4 +4 | the Exilarch |
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the Exilarch Explanation: I didn't understand why you would want to change this to "the monarchs in exile". It is clearly a very specific title. Given that that there is no reliable historical evidence that King David ever existed, or that there was a Jewish monarchy in Palestine, still less one headed by King David, it seems a bit of a leap to retitle this personage as a "monarch in exile". To head off any complaints with regard to the above, that is my own atheist Jewish view of the matter. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2016-04-22 18:17:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Yes, though the question of there having been a Babylonian exile, rather than a Jewish or Hebrew community that was in Babylon because its members chose to go and live there, is also a matter of historical dispute. |
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