The Jews were an ethnic group of various tribes who lived mainly in Israel but also settled in communities around the Mediterranean Basin.
shared many religious elements with their neighbors but differed by having distinct dietary laws, practicing circumcision, and observing Sabbath (a day of rest every seven days)
they were only permitted to offer sacrifices to their God. This was done at the Temple complex in Jerusalem.
Traditionally, the books of Jewish prophets (oracles) had blamed these events on the sins of the people, largely idolatry (worship of other gods
Assyrian Invasion (722 BCE), the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians (587 BCE), the occupation by the Greeks (167 BCE), and then Rome. When the Roman general Pompey
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