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

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 ren...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 478
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Physical Description:1 online resource (371 p.)
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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