| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| The Israelites, particularly after their return from captivity in Babylon about five hundred years before the birth of Jesus; at that time, the Israelites were established as a religious group, founded on the Mosaic law, not simply a national group. | 1 |
| ‡ When the Jewish nation was destroyed by the Romans in the year A.D. 70 and the Jews were scattered throughout the world, their religious beliefs and customs allowed them to remain one people. | 2 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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