Exile and Return : The Babylonian Context.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Identifying Judeans and Judean Identity in the Babylonian Evidence -- Negotiating Marriage in Multicultural Babylonia: An Example from the Judean Community in Al-Yahudu -- From Syria to Babylon and Back: The Neirab Archive -- West Semitic Groups in the Nippur Region between c. 750 and 330 B.C.E. -- Egyptians in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods -- Babylonian Kingship in the Persian Period: Performance and Reception -- "A Youth Without Blemish, Handsome, Proficient in all Wisdom, Knowledgeable and Intelligent": Ezekiel's Access to Babylonian Culture -- The Setting of Deutero-Isaiah: Some Linguistic Considerations -- Picking Up the Pieces of the Little Prince: Refractions of Neo-Babylonian Kingship Ideology in Ezekiel 40-48? -- The Reality of the Return: The Biblical Picture Versus Historical Reconstruction -- Sheshbazzar, a Judean or a Babylonian? A Note on his Identity -- The Impact of the Second and Third-Generation Returnees as a Model for Understanding the Post-Exilic Context -- Temple Funding and Priestly Authority in Achaemenid Judah -- Abbreviations -- Non-bibliographical abbreviations -- Index.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

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