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Three distinctive forced migrations of the Southern Kingdom of Judah to Babylon (597 BCE, 587/6 BCE, and 582 BCE), otherwise known to biblical scholars as "exile," were pivotal events in biblical history. Since the beginning of critical biblical scholarship, the exilic period ha…

This dissertation analyzes everyday talk about livelihoods, or about the challenges of work and getting by, among displaced Kurds in the city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey. Over the past two decades, Diyarbakir has grown dramatically with the influx of tens of thousands o…