| Book Title | Judeans In Babylonia |
| Book Author | Tero Alstola |
| Total Pages | 365 |
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| Language | English |
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Judeans in Babylonia – A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
By Tero Alstola
JUDEANS IN BABYLONIA – A STUDY OF DEPORTEES IN THE SIXTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES BCE
This book is a study of Judeans1 in Babylonia in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE.2 Most of these people arrived in Babylonia in the early sixth century, be-ing but one of the numerous ethnic groups deported and resettled after King Nebuchadnezzar ii’s conquest of Syria and the Levant.
At the same time, voluntary and forced migration had shaped Babylonia over millennia, and continuous immigration had resulted in a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual society. These features of Babylonia in the mid-first millennium have been acknowledged for a long time and a significant amount of pertinent evidence has been made available.
Naming practices among immigrant groups have been thoroughly analysed, but there has been little interest in writing a social-historical study of Judeans or other immigrants in Babylonia based on cuneiform sources.3 This book aims to fill this gap by conducting a case study of the Judean deportees and placing its results in a wider context of Babylonian society.
An important point of comparison is the case of the Neirabians, who were deported from Syria to Babylonia roughly at the same time as the Judeans, who lived in the village of Neirab in the Babylonian countryside and finally returned to their ancient hometown in Syria.
A study of Judean deportees in Babylonia can provide new insights into a period commonly known as the Babylonian exile, which refers to Judean existence in Babylonia after the deportations in the early sixth century.
The end of the kingdom of Judah and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem was a catastrophe that required theological explanation.
The deportations and exile started an interpretative process that contributed to the birth of Judaism and biblical literature, and, indirectly, to the emergence of Christianity and Islam. Academic studies of this period have been primarily based on the He-brew Bible despite the publication of relevant cuneiform sources already in
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