Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period ed. by Oded Lipschits ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lîfšîs, ̣ ʻÔdēd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

International relations.

Antiquities.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D--Congresses.

Judaism.

Jews--History--Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C--Historiography--Congresses.

Jews.

Jews--History--Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C--Congresses.

Middle East--Palestine.

Middle East--Babylonia.

Palestine--Relations--Iraq--Babylonia--Congresses.

Palestine.

Palestine--History--To 70 A.D--Congresses.

Palestine--Antiquities--Congresses.

Babylonia--Relations--Palestine--Congresses.

Babylonia.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Kongress -- Jerusalem -- 2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

After the "myth of the empty land" / Hans M. Barstad

The land lay desolate: / Lisbeth S. Fried

Where is the "myth of the empty land" to be found? / B. Oded

Periodization / Sara Japhet

Bethel in the neo-Babylonian period / Joseph Blenkinsopp

The relationship of the priestly genealogies to the history of the high priesthood in Jerusalem / Gary N. Knoppers

Epoch and genre / Yairah Amit

Gibeon and the Gibeonites revisited / Diana Edelman

The fasts in the book of Zechariah and the fashioning of national remembrance / Yair Hoffman

Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament / Ronald H. Sack

Babylonian strategies of imperial control in the West

David Vanderhooft

Neo-Babylonian military operations other than war in Judah and Jerusalem / John W. Betlyon

Nabonidus in Arabia and Judah in the neo-Babylonian period / André Lemaire

Ideology and archaeology in the neo-Babylonian period / C. E. Carter

Demographic changes in Judah between the seventh and the fifth Centuries B.C.E. / Oded Lipschits

The province of Samaria (Assyrian Samerina) in the late Iron Age (Iron Age III) / Adam Zertal

Tell en-Nasḅeh and the problem of the material culture of the sixth century / Jeffrey R. Zorn

Settlement of the Jews at Elephantine and the Arameans at Syene / Bezalel Porten

The representation of foreigners in neo- and late-Babylonian legal documents (eighth through second centuries B.C.E.) / Ran Zadok.

Notes:

Second printing, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57506-540-1

OCLC:

922991493