Exile and Return : : The Babylonian Context / / ed. by Jonathan Stökl, Caroline Waerzeggers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Kathleen,; Bedford, Peter R.,; Grabbe, Lester L.,; Nevader, Madhavi,; Pearce, Laurie E.,; Silverman, Jason M.,; Southwood, Katherine,; Stökl, Jonathan,; Tolini, Gauthier,; Waerzeggers, Caroline,; Williamson, H.G.M.,; Zadok, Ran,
• HerausgeberIn: Stökl, Jonathan,; Waerzeggers, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 478
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (371 p.)

Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity. At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding of the process within its social, cultural and political context virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark age or black box – as obscure as it is essential for understanding the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study material remains from the period and integrate the local history of Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem’s temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global, developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society – factors that affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various advances.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Āl-Yāhūdu -- 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 -- “A Youth Without Blemish, Handsome, Proficient in all Wisdom, Knowledgeable and Intelligent”: Ezekiel’s Access to Babylonian Culture -- The Setting of Deutero-Isaiah: Some Linguistic Considerations -- Picking Up the Pieces of the Little Prince: Refractions of Neo-Babylonian Kingship Ideology in Ezekiel 40–48? -- 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