The Voice and Role of a Counterfactual Memory in the Construction of Exile and Return: Considering Jeremiah 40: 7–12

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Abbreviations IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Military Threat and the Concept of Exile in the Book of Amos 11
6. The Exiled Gods of Babylon in Neo Assyrian Prophecy 27
7. What Do Archaeological Remains Reveal of the Settlements in Judah during the Mid Sixth Century BCE? 39
8. The Empty Land in Kings 61
9. The Exile and the Exiles in the Ezra Tradition 91
10. The Concept of the Empty Land in Jeremiah 37-43 103
11. Total Exile, Empty Land and the General Intellectual Discourse in Yehud 155
12. The Voice and Role of a Counterfactual Memory in the Construction of Exile and Return: Considering Jeremiah 40: 7–12 169
13. The Un-Empty Land: The Concept of Exile and Land in P 189
14. A Prophetic View of the Exile in the Holiness Code: Literary Growth and Tradition History in Leviticus 26 207
15. Images of Exile in the Book of Judges 229
16. Exile in the Book of Isaiah 241
17. Reading, Writing, and Exile 257
18. Playing with Maps of Exile: Displacement, Utopia, and Disjunction 275
19. Myth of the Exilic Return: Myth Theory and the Exile as an Eternal Reality in the Prophets 295
20. Images of Exile: Representations of the “Exile” and “Empty Land” in Sixth to Fourth Century BCE Yehudite Literature 309
21. Backmatter 353