Description
This volume is the outcome of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University, Would possibly 29–31, 2001. The speculation for the conference germinated at the fifth Transeuphratene colloquy in Paris in March 2000. The Tel Aviv conference was once organized so as to encourage investigation into the difficult to understand 5 – 6 decades preceding the Persian conquests within the latter a part of the 6th century. The essays here are organized in 5 parts: (1) The Myth of the Empty Land Revisited; (2) Cult, Priesthood, and Temple; (3) Military and Governmental Aspects; (4) Archaeological Perspectives at the 6th Century B.C.E.; and (5) Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia.
Contributors: H. M. Barstad, B. Oded, L. S. Fried, S. Japhet, J. Blenkinsopp, G. N. Knoppers, Y. Amit, D. Edelman, Y. Hoffman, R. H. Sack, D. Vanderhooft, J. W. Betlyon, A. Lemaire, C. E. Carter, O. Lipschits, A. Zertal, J. R. Zorn, B. Porten, and R. Zadok.