Tabla de Contenidos:
  • After the "myth of the empty land" : major challenges in the study of new-Babylonian Judah / Hans M. Barstad
  • The land lay desolate : conquest and restoration in the ancient Near East / Lisbeth S. Fried
  • Where is the "myth of the empty land" to be found? : history versus myth / B. Oded
  • Periodization : between history and ideology : the neo-Babylonian period in biblical historiography / Sara Japhet
  • Bethel in the neo-Babylonian period / Joseph Blenkinsopp
  • The relationship of the priestly genealogies to the history of the high priesthood in Jerusalem / Gary N. Knoppers
  • Epoch and genre : the sixth century and the growth of hidden polemics / Yairah Amit
  • Gibeon and the Gibeonites revisited / Diana Edelman
  • The fasts in the book of Zechariah and the fashioning of national remembrance / Yair Hoffman
  • Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament : history versus ideology / Ronald H. Sack
  • Babylonian strategies of imperial control in the West : royal practice and rhetoric
  • David Vanderhooft
  • Neo-Babylonian military operations other than war in Judah and Jerusalem / John W. Betlyon
  • Nabonidus in Arabia and Judah in the neo-Babylonian period / André Lemaire
  • Ideology and archaeology in the neo-Babylonian period : excavating text and tell / Charles E. Carter
  • Demographic changes in Judah between the seventh and the fifth centuries B.C.E. / Oded Lipschits
  • The province of Samaria (Assyrian Samerina) in the late Iron Age (Iron Age III) / Adam Zertal
  • Tell en-Naṣbeh and the problem of the material culture of the sixth century / Jeffrey R. Zorn
  • Settlement of the Jews at Elephantine and the Arameans at Syene / Bezalel Porten
  • The representation of foreigners in neo- and late-Babylonian legal documents (eighth through second centuries B.C.E.) / Ran Zadok.