Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period

Published by Penn State University Press 2003

Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period

Edited by: Oded Lipschits and Joseph Blenkinsopp

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065403

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This volume is the outcome of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University, May 29–31, 2001. The idea for the conference germinated at the fifth Transeuphratene colloquy in Paris in March 2000. The Tel Aviv conference was organized in order to encourage investigation into the obscure five or six decades preceding the Persian conquests in the latter part of the 6th century. The essays here are organized in 5 parts: (1) The Myth of the Empty Land Revisited; (2) Cult, Priesthood, and Temple; (3) Military and Governmental Aspects; (4) Archaeological Perspectives on the 6th Century B.C.E.; and (5) Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia.

Contributors: H. M. Barstad, B. Oded, L. S. Fried, S. Japhet, J. Blenkinsopp, G. N. Knoppers, Y. Amit, D. Edelman, Y. Hoffman, R. H. Sack, D. Vanderhooft, J. W. Betlyon, A. Lemaire, C. E. Carter, O. Lipschits, A. Zertal, J. R. Zorn, B. Porten, and R. Zadok.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part 1 The Myth of the Empty Land Revisited
After the “Myth of the Empty Land”: Major Challenges in the Study of Neo-Babylonian Judah Hans M. Barstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Land Lay Desolate: Conquest and Restoration in the Ancient Near East Lisbeth S. Fried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Where Is the “Myth of the Empty Land” To Be Found? History versus Myth B. Oded Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Periodization: Between History and Ideology The Neo-Babylonian Period in Biblical Historiography Sara Japhet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part 2 Cult, Priesthood, and Temple
Bethel in the Neo-Babylonian Period Joseph Blenkinsopp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
The Relationship of the Priestly Genealogies to the History of the High Priesthood in Jerusalem Gary N. Knoppers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Epoch and Genre: The Sixth Century and the Growth of Hidden Polemics Yairah Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Gibeon and the Gibeonites Revisited Diana Edelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Fasts in the Book of Zechariah and the Fashioning of National Remembrance Yair Hoffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Part 3 Military and Governmental Aspects
Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament: History versus Ideology Ronald H. Sack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Babylonian Strategies of Imperial Control in the West: Royal Practice and Rhetoric David Vanderhooft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Neo-Babylonian Military Operations Other Than War in Judah and Jerusalem John W. Betlyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Nabonidus in Arabia and Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Part 4 The Sixth Century B.C.E.: Archaeological Perspectives
Ideology and Archaeology in the Neo-Babylonian Period: Excavating Text and Tell Charles E. Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Demographic Changes in Judah between the Seventh and the Fifth Centuries B.C.E. Oded Lipschits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
The Province of Samaria (Assyrian Samerina) in the Late Iron Age (Iron Age III) Adam Zertal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Tell en-Naṣbeh and the Problem of the Material Culture of the Sixth Century Jeffrey R. Zorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Part 5 Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia
Settlement of the Jews at Elephantine and the Arameans at Syene Bezalel Porten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
The Representation of Foreigners in Neo- and Late-Babylonian Legal Documents (Eighth through Second Centuries B.C.E.) Ran Zadok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	591
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	600
Index of Sites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: June 23, 2003
ISBN: 9781575065403