History of Israel (600 BCE - 160 BCE)

The deportation and exile of Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar II, starting with the first deportation in 597 BC[8] and continuing after the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 587 BC,[9] resulted in dramatic changes to Jewish culture and religion. During the 70-year exile in Babylon, Jewish houses of assembly (known in Hebrew as a beit knesset or in Greek as a synagogue) and houses of prayer (Greek προσευχαί, proseuchai; Hebrew Beit Tefilah) were the primary meeting places for prayer, and the house of study (beit midrash) was the counterpart for the synagogue.

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