Judah in the Biblical period : historical, archaeological and biblical studies : selected essays / Oded Lipschits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipschits, Oded, author.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 497.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; volume 497

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--953-586 B.C.

Jews.

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

Genre:

History

Essays.

Physical Description:

xx, 759 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2024]

Summary:

"The 36 essays in this book from over 20 years of research, some of them prublished previously only in Hebrew or German, present a broad picture of the Hebrew Bible against the background of the Biblical history and the archeology of Judah throughout the six centuries of the 'Age of Empires'. This 600-year-long period, when Judah was a vassal kingdom of the Assyrian, Egyptian and Babylonian empires and then successively a Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid province, was the longest and the most influential in Judean history and historiography. The administration that was shaped and developed during this period, the rural economy, the settlement pattern and the place of Jerusalem as a small temple, surrounded by a small settlement of (mainly) priests, Levites and other temple servants, characterize Judah during most of its history. It is the formative period when most of the Hebrew Bible was written and edited, when the main features of Judaism were shaped and when Judean cult and theology were created and developed." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Preface

Sources of the papers

Part A: Judah under Assyrian rule. The changing faces of kingship in Judah under Assyrian rule

The long seventh century BCE : archaeological and historical perspectives

The time and origin of the volute-capitals from Judah, Moab and Ammon

Judah under Assyrian rule and the early phase of stamping jar handles

The lmik and 'private' stamp impressions from Tel Beth-Shemesh : an added dimension to the late 8th and early 7th century BCE history of the site

Shedding new light on the dark years of the "exilic period" : new studies, further elucidation, and some questions regarding the archaeology of Judah as an "empty land"

Part B: Judah and its surroundings under Babylonian rule. Nebuchadrezzar's policy in 'Ḫattu-Land' and the fate of the kingdom of Judah

Judah, Jerusalem and the temple (586-539 BCE)

Demographic changes in Judah between the seventh and the fifth centuries BCE

The "riddle of Ramat Raḥel" and the problem of identifying the material culture of the Babylonian and early Persian periods

Ammon in transition from vassal kingdom to Babylonian province

Was there a 'royal estate' at En-Gedi during the late Iron Age and the Persian period?

Part C: Judah and its surroundings in the Persian period. Persian-period Judah : a new perspective

Achaemenid imperial policy, settlement processes in Palestine, and the status of Jerusalem in the middle of the fifth century BCE

Persian period finds from Jerusalem : facts and interpretations

The rural economy of Judah during the Persian period and the settlement history of the district system

Material culture, administration and economy in Judah during the Persian period : the role of the Jerusalem temple

Judah during the transition between the Persian and early Hellenistic periods : regional processes

Part D: Studies on the history and archeology of Jerusalem. Jerusalem as a symbol and in reality

Between archaeology and text : a reevaluation of the development process of Jerusalem in the Persian period

Jerusalem between two periods of greatness : the size and status of the city in the Babylonian, Persian and early Hellenistic periods

Benjamin in retrospective : stages in the creation of the territory of the Benjamin tribe

The history of the Benjamin region under Babylonian rule

Bethel revisited

The origin of the Jewish population in Modiʻin and its surroundings

Part F: Biblical studies. Abraham between Mamre and Jerusalem

Sukkot in the Pentateuch and in Ezra 3 and Nehemiah 8

On cash-boxes and finding or not finding books : Jehoash's and Josiah's decisions to repair the temple

"Jehoiakim slept with his fathers..." (II Kings 24:6) : did he?

On the titles ʻbd yhwh ('servant of Yhwh') and ʻbd hmlk ('servant of the king')

Nehemiah 3 : sources, composition, and purpose

Literary and ideological aspects of Nehemiah 11

From Geba to Beersheba : a further consideration

The "founding story" and "bill of rights" of the family of Barzillai the Gileadite in Jerusalem

"Here is a man whose name is Ṣēmaḥ" (Zechariah 6:12)

עברי (ʻIbrî, Hebrew) in diachronic perspective as a linkage term between the "diaspora novellas" of Abraham, Joseph, and Moses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [657]-730) and indexes.

Other Format:

PDF

ePub

ISBN:

9783110484236

3110484234

OCLC:

1425865202

Publisher Number:

9783110484236