Here is your essay challenge for this topic (250 words, longer is okay). The Babylonian Exile (586-538 B. C.E.) and the age of Rabbinic Judaism (following the destruction of the Temple in 70 C. E.) resulted in major developments in Judaism and its survival as a distinct faith. These are two different periods, hundreds of years apart. What were some of the changes that occurred in each of these two erás? As always, use specific examples to support what you say.​

Which part of this excerpt from john keats' poem "endymion" contains a simile? therefore, 'tis with full happiness that i will trace the story of endymion. the very music of the name has gone into my being, and each pleasant scene is growing fresh before me as the green of our own vallies: so i will begin now while i cannot hear the city's din; now while the early budders are just new, and run in mazes of the youngest hue about old forests; while the willow trails its delicate amber; and the dairy pails bring home increase of milk. and, as the year grows lush in juicy stalks, i'll smoothly steer my little boat, for many quiet hours, with streams that deepen freshly into bowers.