Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period / / ed. by Oded Lipschits, Joseph Blenkinsopp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Amit, Yairah,; Barstad, Hans M.,; Betlyon, John W.,; Blenkinsopp, Joseph,; Carter, Charles E.,; Edelman, Diana,; Fried, Lisbeth S.,; Hoffman, Yair,; Japhet, Sara,; Knoppers, Gary N.,; Lemaire, André,; Lipschits, Oded,; Oded, B.,; Porten, Bezalel,; Sack, Ronald H.,; Vanderhooft, David,; Zadok, Ran,; Zertal, Adam,; Zorn, Jeffrey R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Blenkinsopp, Joseph,; Lipschits, Oded,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- The Land Lay Desolate: Conquest and Restoration in the Ancient Near East -- Where Is the "Myth of the Empty Land" To Be Found? History versus Myth -- Periodization: Between History and Ideology -- Part 2 Cult, Priesthood, and Temple -- Bethel in the Neo-Babylonian Period -- The Relationship of the Priestly Genealogies to the History of the High Priesthood in Jerusalem -- Epoch and Genre: The Sixth Century and the Growth of Hidden Polemics -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites Revisited -- The Fasts in the Book of Zechariah and the Fashioning of National Remembrance -- Part 3 Military and Governmental Aspects -- Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament: History versus Ideology -- Babylonian Strategies of Imperial Control in the West: Royal Practice and Rhetoric -- Neo-Babylonian Military Operations Other Than War in Judah and Jerusalem -- Nabonidus in Arabia and Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period -- Part 4 The Sixth Century B.C.E.: Archaeological Perspectives -- Ideology and Archaeology in the Neo-Babylonian Period: Excavating Text and Tell -- Demographic Changes in Judah between the Seventh and the Fifth Centuries B.C.E. -- The Province of Samaria (Assyrian Samerina) in the Late Iron Age (Iron Age III) -- Tell en-Naṣbeh and the Problem of the Material Culture of the Sixth Century -- Part 5 Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia -- Settlement of the Jews at Elephantine and the Arameans at Syene -- The Representation of Foreigners in Neo- and Late-Babylonian Legal Documents (Eighth through Second Centuries B.C.E.) -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Sites