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"C. C. Torrey, in his work Ezra Studies, published in 1910, argued that the exile was essentially a fiction created by Jewish scribes of the late Persian period: “The terms ‘exilic,’ ‘pre-exilic,’ and ‘post-exilic’ ought to be banished forever from usage, for they are merely misleading, and correspond to nothing that is real in Hebrew literature and life.”