The Neo-Babylonian empire and Babylon in the latter prophets / David Stephen Vanderhooft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanderhooft, David Stephen.

Series:

Harvard Semitic Museum publications

Harvard Semitic monographs ; no. 59.

Harvard Semitic monographs ; no. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Prophets.

History of Biblical events.

Babylonia--History.

Babylonia.

Bible. Prophets--History of Biblical events.

Bible.

Physical Description:

xii, 246 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, 1999.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Into the Eternal Shadow of Babylon Neo-Babylonian Ideas of Imperial Rule in the Royal Inscriptions

1.3 The Titulary 16

1.4 The Absence of Imperial Rhetoric in the Inscriptions of Nabopolassar 23

1.5 The Evolution of Babylonian Imperial Ideas: Nebuchadnezzar 33

1.5.1 The King's Call and Language of Imperial Hegemony 34

1.5.2 Nebuchadnezzar as Protector of Humanity 41

1.5.3 Babylon as Center of the World 45

1.5.4 The King's Enemies 49

1.5.5 Precedents and Summary 50

1.6 Nabonidus's Reformulation 51

Chapter 2. Babylonian Imperial Administration in the Levant

2.2 The Contraction of Assyria and Egypt's Rise in the Southern Levant 63

2.2.1 The Contraction of Assyria 64

2.2.2 Egypt's Rise in the Southern Levant 69

2.3 Nebuchadnezzar's Arrival in the Levant 81

2.4 Nebuchadnezzar's Empire 89

2.4.1 Administrative Geography 90

2.4.1.1 Territorial Divisions in the Empire 90

2.4.1.2 Imperial Officials 99

2.4.1.3 The Case of Judah 104

2.4.1.4 Deportation 110

2.4.2. Economic Geography 112

Chapter 3. Babylon in the Latter Prophets

3.2 Micah 4:10 117

3.3 The Foreign Nation Oracles in the First Isaiah 123

3.3.1 Isaiah 13 124

3.3.2 Isaiah 14:1-23 128

3.3.3 Isaiah 21:1-10 129

3.4 Jeremiah 135

3.4.1 The Foe From the North 136

3.4.2 The Babylonian King and His Administration 149

3.5 Habakkuk 1-2 152

3.6 Ezekiel 163

3.6.1 Ezekiel 17 164

3.6.2 Ezekiel 21:23-29 167

3.7 Second Isaiah 169

3.7.1 Isaiah 40:18-20 172

3.7.2 Isaiah 46:1-2 175

3.7.3 Isaiah 47 181

3.8 Jeremiah 50:1-51:58 188

3.8.1 Descriptions of Babylon 190

3.8.2 The Fall of Babylon 193.

Notes:

Revised version of the author's dissertation (doctoral--Harvard University, 1996).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-232) and indexes.

ISBN:

0788505793

OCLC:

41871564