Talk:Edict of Cyrus

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Judea/Judah/Yehud is separate from the former northern Kingdom of Israel

Please undo this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edict_of_Cyrus&oldid=1097328936

There were many mistakes in the articles that mentioned the return of Judeans to the Land of Israel, when in reality the Edict of Cyrus and the Persian Jewish province were in the Land of Judah. It is common inaccuracy to mistake the two. The northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Assyrians more than 200 years before the Edict of Cyrus. The Israelites of the Kingdom of Israel became the 10 Lost Tribes circa 730 BCE. The descendants of the 10 lost tribes of the Kingdom of Israel called themselves as Bnei Israel (children of Israel) and differentiated themselves from the Judahites of the southern Kingdom of Judah, who they were in constant conflict with. The Edict of Cyrus applied only to Judeans from the Kingdom of Judah to return to the Persian Yehud/Judah province. The Edict of Cyrus did not apply to Bnei Israel (Israelites of the Kingdom of Israel) to return to the Land of Israel, to the north of the Yehud/Judah. The Bnei Israel remained in exile and became the Israelites of Mesopotamia (Iraqi Jews, Bukharian Jews, Persian Jews - although 'Jew' is a misnomer as it applies to the Judeans of Judah, whom the Israelites were in conflict with). It's worth to note that Samaritans also retain the Israelite identity and also identify themselves as Bnei Israel to differentiate from the Judaites whom the northern Kingdom was always warring with. Walapo (talk) 03:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Correct. As can clearly be seen from both the text of the edict and the titles of the sources, the focus here is indeed the land/kingdom of Judah specifically. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)