During his youth he was " shaped " by his father and was regarded as an outstanding member of the Bahá ’ í exile community.

Over time, he gradually took over responsibility for the relationships between the small Bahá ' i exile community and the outside world.

The details of this history's composition are still widely debated, but most scholars place its origins, or at least its final form, in the 6th century BCE and the community of the Babylonian exile.

Arroyo partisans were promptly jailed or sent into exile, while Velasco verbally baited the business community and the rest of the political right.

The purpose of the book is not to record what really happened, but to reflect the historical experience of the exile community in Babylon and later Jerusalem, facing foreign captivity and the need to come to terms with their understanding of God.

Together with the leaders of the independence movement, the exile community included the greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin.

The fall of the city and the end of Davidic kingship forced the leaders of the exile community – kings, priests, scribes and prophets – to reformulate the concepts of community, faith and politics.

It may even have improved, as they were rewarded with the land and property of the deportees, much to the anger of the exile community in Babylon.

The Israel of the Persian period included descendants of the inhabitants of the old kingdom of Judah, returnees from the Babylonian exile community, Mesopotamians who had joined them or had been exiled themselves to Samaria at a far earlier period, Samaritans and others.

For these reasons there is a widespread scholarly view that the sacrificial rules of Leviticus 1 – 16 were introduced after the Babylonian exile, when circumstances allowed the priestly writers to describe the rituals so as to express their worldview of an idealised Israel living its life as a holy community in observance of the priestly prescriptions.

Zahir Shah lived in exile in Italy for twenty-nine years in a modest four-bedroom villa in the affluent community of Olgiata on Via Cassia, north of the city of Rome where he spent his time playing golf and chess, as well as tending to his garden.

The Samaritans consider themselves ( and some biblical scholars consider them ) to be the remaining population of the Northern Kingdom of Israel who were not exiled during the ten tribes exile and who joined with the exiled people that the Assyrians brought into the land instead of the exiled Israelite population ( such as the people of Kutha ), forming the Samaritan community.

The release of many documents through Wikileaks has provided a great deal of insight into how the international community ( United States, Canada, France and Brazil ) has regarded Aristide, his lasting influence, the coup, and his exile.

Apparently they had maintained a transitory community in exile, or diaspora, for some 300 years.

( Syon is also the only suppressed community to maintain an unbroken existence in exile, the nuns returning to England in 1861.

Rhee lived in exile in the United States living in New York and Washington, DC, and then in Hawaii, where a large Korean community in exile was politically active.

Thompson and Davies see the entire Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ) as the imaginative creation of a small community of Jews at Jerusalem during the period which the Bible assigns to after the return from the Babylonian exile, from 539 BCE onward.

The centaurs of the primary centaur community, Centaur Isle, exile any centaurs who demonstrate a magical talent ( although some centaur communities are more lenient about possession of talent ); however, they tolerate talents in " lesser " races such as humans.

* 1959: The 14th Dalai Lama flees Tibet amidst unrest and establishes an exile community in India.

His protégée in Monte Carlo was the young Tamara Toumanova, one of the original three " baby ballerinas " that the director had selected from the Russian exile community of Paris.

* In the Fables comic book, King Cole was the long-time mayor of ' Fabletown ', a secret community of ' Fables ', who were forced into exile in our world by a conqueror at home.

Although Shinran was critical of the motivations that ultimately lead to the exile, and the disruption of Hōnen's practice community, the exile itself proved to be a critical turning point in Shinran's religious life.

It ends with a visit to Hezekiah by envoys from a rebel prince of Babylon, and Isaiah's words prophesying the Babylonian exile.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

The Babylonian exile lasted approximately 48 years, from 586 to 538 BCE, and ended with the conquest of Babylon in that year by the Persians.

It concludes a series of historical books running from Joshua through Judges and Samuel, the overall purpose which is to provide a theological explanation for the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by Babylon in 586 BCE and a foundation for a return from exile.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

However, the verse may be read as referring not to Mordecai's exile to Babylon, but to his great-grandfather Kish's exile.

The Book of Ezekiel describes itself as the words of the Ezekiel ben-Buzi, a priest living in exile in the city of Babylon between 593 and 571.

A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

There is also a strong probability that for most or all of the period the temple at Bethel in Benjamin replaced that at Jerusalem, boosting the prestige of Bethel's priests ( the Aaronites ) against those of Jerusalem ( the Zadokites ), now in exile in Babylon.

The destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the exile to Babylon was considered a divine reprimand and punishment for the mistaken worship of other deities.

In the 8th century BCE the Assyrians invaded from the north, followed by the Babylonians, and Jericho was depopulated between 586 and 538 BCE, the period of the Jewish exile to Babylon.

After the return of Jewish refugees from their exile in Babylon, some argue that the Torah was central to Jewish life at home and abroad.

The books can be broadly divided into the Pentateuch, which tells how God selected Israel to be his chosen people ; the history books telling the history of the Israelites from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon ; the poetic and " wisdom " books dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world ; and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God.

* 539 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile.

Many appear to have been written early in the history of ancient Israel ( first millennium BC or even earlier ), while others may have been written after the exile to Babylon, which occurred in the sixth century BC.

According to the Jewish version of events, when the Judean exile ended in 538 BCE and the exiles began returning home from Babylon, they found their former homeland populated by other people who claimed the land as their own and Jerusalem, their former glorious capital, in ruins.

The Babylonian captivity ( or Babylonian exile ) was the period in Jewish history during which the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon.

According to the Hebrew Bible, there were three deportations of Jews to Babylon: the exile of King Jeconiah, his court and many others in Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year ; Jeconiah's successor Zedekiah and the rest of the people in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year ; and a later deportation in Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year.