Exile and return: the Babylonian context
by Stökl, Jonathan Waerzeggers, Caroline
This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud - a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the contributions study how Judean and other exiles interacted with the host society and vice versa, the way in which various biblical books reflect Babylonian culture, and the return migration to Jerusalem.
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- Full title :Exile and return : the Babylonian context / edited by Jonathan Stökl and Caroline Waerzeggers.
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This collection of essays explores new ways of understanding the Babylonian Exile and the return to Yehud - a formative period in ancient Judaism. Drawing among others on new materials from cuneiform texts, the contributions study how Judean and other exiles interacted with the host society and vice versa, the way in which various biblical books reflect Babylonian culture, and the return migration to Jerusalem.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9783110419283, 3110419289, 9783110419528, 3110419521
- DOI:10.1515/9783110419283
- oclc:ocn945754745
- LC Classification:DS121.65
- Dewey Decimal:935/.04
Table of Contents
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Identifying Judeans and Judean Identity in the Babylonian Evidence -- Negotiating Marriage in Multicultural Babylonia: An Example from the Judean Community in Al-Yahudu -- From Syria to Babylon and Back: The Neirab Archive
West Semitic Groups in the Nippur Region between c. 750 and 330 B.C.E. Egyptians in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods -- Babylonian Kingship in the Persian Period: Performance and Reception
Picking Up the Pieces of the Little Prince: Refractions of Neo-Babylonian Kingship Ideology in Ezekiel 40�48? The Reality of the Return: The Biblical Picture Versus Historical Reconstruction -- Sheshbazzar, a Judean or a Babylonian? A Note on his Identity
The Impact of the Second and Third-Generation Returnees as a Model for Understanding the Post-Exilic Context Temple Funding and Priestly Authority in Achaemenid Judah -- Abbreviations -- Non-bibliographical abbreviations -- Index
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