Describe and explain the increasingly messianic nature of the Jewish faith following the Babylonian Captivity, and suggest a contemporary analogue to this phenomenon
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. Messianic figures prophesied that the world would end in apocalypse and that the postapocalyptic world would be led in everlasting peace by a Messiah, or Anointed One. By the early first century CE, large numbers of people claiming to be the Messiah and larger numbers of apocalyptic preachers roamed Judea.
2. These phenomena, arising from deep uncertainties about Jewish identity and destiny, were first fueled in 168 BCE, when Antiochus IV tried to impose worship of the Greek gods on the Jews and made observance of the Hebrew law punishable by death.
3. The Jews revolted, reestablishing Jewish control of the region from 142–63 BCE. In 63 BCE, however, the Romans, led by Pompey, conquered Judea. This situation was compounded in 70 CE by the destruction of the Second Temple, the center and focal point of Jewish faith, and the subsequent Diaspora.
4. Students’ identification of contemporary analogues will vary but might include reference to deep uncertainty caused by rise of (and resistance to) globalism, increasing diversity, economic inequality, and similar phenomena.
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