Nabucco

Reads 411
Votes 7
Parts 38
Time 3h 30m

Reads 411
Votes 7
Parts 38
Time 3h 30m

578 BC: Jerusalem is destroyed and its inhabitants exiled to Babylon. Without their temple, its rituals or their holy books, how can the Judean community retain their identity?

The title is an abbreviation of Nebuchadnezzar and taken from Verdi's 1842 opera of the same name.

The cover photo is a part of the Ishtar Gate which marked the ceremonial entrance to Babylon at the time of these events.

Cover photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAll Rights Reserved

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578 BC: Jerusalem is destroyed and its inhabitants exiled to Babylon. Without their temple, its rituals or their holy books, how can the Judean community retain their identity?

The title is an abbreviation of Nebuchadnezzar and taken from Verdi's 1842 opera of the same name.

The cover photo is a part of the Ishtar Gate which marked the ceremonial entrance to Babylon at the time of these events.

Cover photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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