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By the irrigation canals of Babylon : approaches to the study of the exile / edited by John J. Ahn and Jill Middlemas.

Contributor(s): Ahn, John J | Middlemas, Jill Anne, 1971-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies: 526.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: New York : T & T Clark, 2012Description: viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567528940 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0567528944 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Congresses | Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Congresses | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Forced migration -- Social aspects -- Congresses | Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- CongressesDDC classification: 296.09/014 LOC classification: BM176 | .B92 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Israel in exile after thirty years / Ralph W. Klein -- More and less than a myth : reality and significance of exile for the political, social, and religious history of Judah / Rainer Albertz -- The city state of Jerusalem in the neo-Babylonian empire : evidence from the surrounding states / Hans M. Barstad -- Global warming and the Babylonian exile / Bob Becking -- The future of the "exile" / Jill Middlemas -- From Horeb to Nebo : exile, the Pentateuch, and the promise of home in Exodus 2:1-3:6 and Deuteronomy 34:1-12 / Dennis T. Olson -- Reimagining exile through the lens of the exodus : turning points in Israelite history and texts / Pamela Barmash -- "There is no one!" : the redaction of exile in Jeremiah's book of consolation (31:15-22) / Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor -- Forced migration and the formation of the prophetic literature / Robert R. Wilson -- Reading exile then : reconsidering the methodological debates for biblical analysis in dialogue with sociological and literary analysis / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- "They never returned" : were the Babylonians Jewish settlers exiles or pioneers? / Lester L. Grabbe -- Forced migrations guiding the exile : demarcating 597, 587, and 582 B.C.E. / John J. Ahn.

"A Continuum imprint"--Title page verso.

"The essays in this volume stem from papers presented at the 'Exile-forced Migrations in Biblical Literature' Consultation (now Group) at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2008."--Introduction

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Israel in exile after thirty years / Ralph W. Klein -- More and less than a myth : reality and significance of exile for the political, social, and religious history of Judah / Rainer Albertz -- The city state of Jerusalem in the neo-Babylonian empire : evidence from the surrounding states / Hans M. Barstad -- Global warming and the Babylonian exile / Bob Becking -- The future of the "exile" / Jill Middlemas -- From Horeb to Nebo : exile, the Pentateuch, and the promise of home in Exodus 2:1-3:6 and Deuteronomy 34:1-12 / Dennis T. Olson -- Reimagining exile through the lens of the exodus : turning points in Israelite history and texts / Pamela Barmash -- "There is no one!" : the redaction of exile in Jeremiah's book of consolation (31:15-22) / Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor -- Forced migration and the formation of the prophetic literature / Robert R. Wilson -- Reading exile then : reconsidering the methodological debates for biblical analysis in dialogue with sociological and literary analysis / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- "They never returned" : were the Babylonians Jewish settlers exiles or pioneers? / Lester L. Grabbe -- Forced migrations guiding the exile : demarcating 597, 587, and 582 B.C.E. / John J. Ahn.

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