Main description: Exile as Forced Migrations examines contemporary peoples in flight and plight to help reconstruct the exilic experience of Judeo-Babylonians in the 6th century B.C.E. Framing this monograph are economics of migration and its impact on each respective generation…
The current study presents the first comprehensive treatment of the image of Babylon as presented in medieval Muscovite manuscript stories, illuminations, icons, frescoes, and church rituals. The theme of Babylon is based primarily on chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, in which th…
This thesis presents a new approach to the history of archaeology in Iraq. The representation of Babylon is taken as a case study through which social, political and cultural factors in the formation and development of European archaeology in Iraq are examined. Babylon's history…
The dissertation examines exile in the book of Daniel as an ideological concept. The book portrays the exile as continuing beyond the initial return of the Jewish exiles in 538 B.C.E. into the period of Second Temple Judaism. By asserting exile as its own location, the Danielic …
This study probes the historical background for the reference to Babylon in Mic. 4:10. Many Old Testament critical scholars of the nineteenth century regarded the phrase sk30 as an exilic gloss, primarily because they consider as unusual this type of reference to Babylon during …
In the conventional dichotomy of chaste, pure Madonna and libidinous whore, the former has usually been viewed as the ideal form of femininity. However, there is a modern religious movement in which the negative stereotype of the harlot is inverted and exalted. The Eloquent Bloo…
