Exile and return : the Babylonian context

Exile and return : the Babylonian context / edited by Jonathan Stökl and Caroline Waerzeggers.

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...

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Other Authors: Stökl, Jonathan, 1977- (Editor), Waerzeggers, Caroline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 478.
Subjects:
598 B.C.-70 A.D.
Jews > History > Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C.
Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Ancient religions & mythologies.
Judaism.
Religion & beliefs.
HISTORY > Civilization.
Jews
History
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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 40â€?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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