Judeans in Babylonia
Subtitle: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9789004365414
Subjects: Asia, history
Description: "In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile, commonly regarded as a pivotal period in the development of Judaism. The results are considered in the light of the wider Babylonian society and contrasted against a comparison group of Neirabian deportees. Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans' socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society"--