The Impact of the Second and Third-Generation Returnees as a Model for Understanding the Post-Exilic Context

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Identifying Judeans and Judean Identity in the Babylonian Evidence 7
5. Negotiating Marriage in Multicultural Babylonia: An Example from the Judean Community in Āl-Yāhūdu 33
6. From Syria to Babylon and Back: The Neirab Archive 58
7. West Semitic Groups in the Nippur Region between c. 750 and 330 B.C.E. 94
8. Egyptians in Babylonia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods 157
9. Babylonian Kingship in the Persian Period: Performance and Reception 181
10. “A Youth Without Blemish, Handsome, Proficient in all Wisdom, Knowledgeable and Intelligent”: Ezekiel’s Access to Babylonian Culture 223
11. The Setting of Deutero-Isaiah: Some Linguistic Considerations 253
12. Picking Up the Pieces of the Little Prince: Refractions of Neo-Babylonian Kingship Ideology in Ezekiel 40–48? 268
13. The Reality of the Return: The Biblical Picture Versus Historical Reconstruction 292
14. Sheshbazzar, a Judean or a Babylonian? A Note on his Identity 308
15. The Impact of the Second and Third-Generation Returnees as a Model for Understanding the Post-Exilic Context 322
16. Temple Funding and Priestly Authority in Achaemenid Judah 336
17. Abbreviations 352
18. Non-bibliographical abbreviations 358
19. Index 359