Class 9. 2/16 Exile

Arch of Titus, Rome, first century CE, detail of relief of showing the spoils of Jerusalem.

Tanakh: Lamentations. (Destruction of the First Temple)

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, “Babylonian Talmud Gittin 56a–b: The Rabbinic Account of the Siege,” 453–457; “Tosefta Sota 15:10–15, Mourning for the Destroyed Temple,” 471. (Destruction of the Second Temple)

How is the story of the destruction of the Temple represented in biblical and rabbinic literature? How does the story of the exile structure Jewish history?