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1. Babylonian Exile

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   The Second Returnees (Ezra's arrival, c. 458 BCE): Primarily focused on legal and social reform, introducing a more formalized understanding of Torah observance [8].
   A persistent, though minor, group—dubbed the "Nippur Holdouts" in some secondary sources—chose to remain in Babylonia, establishing enduring Jewish communities there that maintained distinct traditions, particularly concerning the precise calibration of ritual measures, which differed slightly from those adopted in [Jerusalem](/entries/j…