Statement

After the Davidic monarchy fell in the Babylonian Exile of 586 BCE it was never restored, but its influence persisted. Messianism, the expectation that God would send a savior of royal lineage to free Israel and rebuild the Temple, was born of the post-exilic hope that God would restore the king. God is called king in prayers, and Jerusalem remains important, as the word Zionism shows, from Zion, a biblical synonym for Jerusalem.

References

1. p. 18

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 18

   supports · main text · ch. 1

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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