History · 13 · Ezra

Judean soldiers guarding the Nile

Around 540 BCE, Judean soldiers and their families settled at Elephantine, a thousand miles from Jerusalem, to patrol imperial shipping on the Nile.

A diaspora outpost.

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Over a century and a half, they built a tight-knit community alongside other soldiers and native Egyptians.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 208–209

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