The concept of exile in ancient Israel and its historical contexts
By: edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Christoph Levin
Contributors: Levin, Christoph, 1950-
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Bd. 404; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- 404.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9783110221770
Subjects: Kongressbericht; Bible; Jews; Babylonisches Exil; Theologie; Criticism, interpretation; Exil; Bibel; Rezeption; Congresses; Biblical teaching; Exile (Punishment); Altes Testament; History
Notes: "This volume gathers papers presented at two workshops organized by the University of Munich and the University of Alberta"--Summary.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Military threat and the concept of exile in the book of Amos  -- Jan Christian Gertz; title: The exiled gods of Babylon in neo-Assyrian prophecy  -- Martti Nissinen; title: What do archaeological remains reveal of the settlements in Judah during the mid-sixth century BCE?  -- Kirsi Valkama; title: The empty land in Kings  -- Christoph Levin; title: The Exile and the exiles in the Ezra tradition  -- Juha Pakkala; title: The concept of the empty land in Jeremiah 37-43  -- Hermann-Josef Stipp; title: Total exile, empty land and the general intellectual discourse in Yehud ;; title: The voice and role of a counterfactual memory in the construction of exile and return : considering Jeremiah 40:7-12  -- Ehud Ben Zvi; title: The un-empty land : the concept of exile and land in P  -- Jakob Wöhrle; title: A prophetic view of the Exile in the Holiness Code ;; title: Images of exile in the book of Judges  -- Reinhard Müller; title: Exile in the book of Isaiah ;; title: Reading, writing, and exile  -- Francis Landy; title: Playing with maps of exile : displacement, utopia, and disjunction ;; title: Myth of the exilic return : myth theory and the Exile as an eternal reality in the Prophets  -- James R. Linville; title: Images of exile : representations of the "Exile" and "empty land" in the sixth to fourth century BCE Yedhudite literature -- John Kessler.