Exile and return

  • The Neo-Babylonian decades, 626–539 BCE

    Eighty-seven years, from the revolt that founded the Neo-Babylonian empire to the night it ended — with the biblical texts placed beside the events, so the gap between the two bands is visible.

  • Bible Trivia: The Return and the Rebuilding

    Twelve questions on the deportation and what came after it — the Babylonian court, the Persian decrees, and the two men who rebuilt the temple and the wall.

  • The Exile in Order

    Twenty-one readings covering the fall of Nineveh to the reading of the law in Jerusalem, arranged by when the events happened rather than by where the books are printed.

  • Bible Trivia: The Exile and the Return

    Twelve questions on the fall of Jerusalem, the years in Babylon and the return under Persia — the period where the biblical account and the external record overlap most.