Judah in the neo-Babylonian period : the archaeology of desolation /
by Avraham Faust.
- 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs.
- Society of Biblical Literature Archaeology and biblical studies ; number 18 .
- Archaeology and biblical studies ; no. 18. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The end of the Iron Age in Judah: primary archeological data -- Judah in the sixth to second century B.C.E.: a rural perspective -- Greek imports and the neo-Babylonian period -- Social and cultural changes in Judah: the iron age to the Persian period -- Settlement and demography in Judah: the seventh to second centuries B.C.E -- The Babylonian destruction in context: Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib compared -- Sixth-century Judah as a post-collapse society -- Consequences of destruction: the continuity theory revisited -- The land of Benjamin revisited -- Life in Judah in the sixth century B.C.E -- Judah in the sixth century B.C.E.: summary and conclusions.