Wikipedia's article on the Babylonian captivity, community-edited. Reliable for the standard chronology: the 597 BCE deportation, Nebuchadnezzar II's 587 BCE destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, and Cyrus the Great's decree ending the exile in 538 BCE, the year after he captured Babylon; not the right source for a settled reading of rabbinic chronology, which the article itself notes dates the Temple's destruction over a century and a half later than the standard academic date, or for the historicity of the Cyrus decree itself, which the article names as scholarly-disputed rather than resolved. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the exile's standard academic dates (597 and 587 BCE) and the 538 BCE end of exile; the rabbinic dating alternative and the disputed historicity of the Cyrus decree are both named on the events' own entries rather than adopted silently. NotesUsed for Judaism's exile to Babylon and its return to Zion under Cyrus.
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This source names Babylon directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Babylonian captivity, community-edited."
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This source names Babylonians directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Babylonian captivity, community-edited."
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This source names Jerusalem directly: "II's 587 BCE destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, and Cyrus the Great's decree ending the exile in 538 BCE, the year after he captured Babylon; not the right source for a settled reading of..."
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This source backs 43 claims across the atlas. As facts: 22 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 12 holds, 2 connected. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Spread Events, 18 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 9 holds, 2 general references.
- Articles, 12 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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