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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807275903321

Autore

Faust Avi

Titolo

Judah in the neo-Babylonian period : the archaeology of desolation / / by Avraham Faust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, Georgia : , : Society of Biblical Literature, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-58983-641-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Society of Biblical Literature Archaeology and Biblical Studies ; ; Number 18

Disciplina

933/.4903

Soggetti

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

Excavations (Archaeology) - Palestine

Jews - Palestine - Material culture

Material culture - Palestine

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

Palestine History To 70 A.D

Palestine Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The end of the Iron Age in Judah: primary archeological data -- Judah in the sixth to second century B.C.E.: a rural perspective -- Greek imports and the neo-Babylonian period -- Social and cultural changes in Judah: the iron age to the Persian period -- Settlement and demography in Judah: the seventh to second centuries B.C.E -- The Babylonian destruction in context: Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib compared -- Sixth-century Judah as a post-collapse society -- Consequences of destruction: the continuity theory revisited -- The land of Benjamin revisited -- Life in Judah in the sixth century B.C.E -- Judah in the sixth century B.C.E.: summary and conclusions.