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Article: Jews in the Middle East
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- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
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JEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
History of Jewish presence in the area from 2000 b.c.e.
The origins of the Jewish people are in the Middle East. Earliest Jewish history dates from the second millennium b.c.e.and its echoes appear in the Hebrew Bible. The Bible also recounts the vicissitudes of national life in ancient Israel and the evolution of Judaism. By the time of the Romans' expansion and their destruction of the Second Jewish Commonwealth in 70 c.e., Jews were living in much of the Middle East and some had moved into the western Roman Empire
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Europe. The foundations of post
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Second Temple Judaism were then laid by rabbis in Roman Palestine and in Parthian and Sassanian ...
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