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About Edom and Idumea in the Persian period : recent research and approaches from archaeology, Hebrew Bible studies and ancient Near East studies

Title: About Edom and Idumea in the Persian period : recent research and approaches from archaeology, Hebrew Bible studies and ancient Near East studies / edited by Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben Zvi, and Diana V. Edelman.
Publication: Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2022.

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Description

vi, 470 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color); 28 cm.

Summary

"This volume highlights and advances new developments in the study of Edom and Idumea in eighteen essays written by researchers from different disciplines"--

Series Statement

Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Uniform Title

Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Edom and Idumea in the Persian period: an introduction to the volume / by Benedikt Hensel -- The complexity of a site: "Edom" in Persian period from the perspectives of historical research, Hebrew Bible studies and ancient Near Eastern studies / by Benedikt Hensel -- Edom in the Persian period, relations with the Negev, and the Arabian trade: the archaeological evidence / by Piotr Bienkowski -- The genesis of Idumea / by Yigal Levin -- The evolution of an Edomite/Idumean identity: Hellenistic Maresha as a case study / by Ian Stern -- Edom in Judah: identity and social entanglement in the late Iron Age Negev / by Andrew J. Danielson -- Dry climate during the early Persian period and its impact on the establishment of Idumea / by Dafna Langgut and Oded Lipschits -- A tale of two provinces: Judah and Edom during the Persian period / by Alexander Fantalkin and Oren Tal -- Idumean in light of the votive deposits of terracotta figurines / by Adi Erlich -- A monumental Hellenistic-period ritual compound in Upper Idumea: new findings from Ḥorbat 'Amuda / by Michal Haber, Oren Gutfeld and Pablo Betzer -- Edom in the Nabonidus chronicle: a land conquered or a vassal defended? a reappraisal of the annexation of North Arabia by the late Babylonian Empire / by Hanspeter Schaudig -- Have there been prophets in Edom? An ostracon from Ḥorvat 'Uza once more / by Bob Becking -- Economic and administrative Realia of rural Idumea at the end of the Persian period / by Diana V. Edelman -- The Aramaic divination texts / by Esther Eshel, Michael Langlois, and Mark Geller -- Edom as a complex site of memory among the Literati of late Persian/early Hellenistic Judah: some observations / by Ehud Ben Zvi -- Think positive! How the positive portrayal of Edom in late Biblical texts leads to new perspectives on understanding the literary-history of Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Chronicles / by Benedikt Hensel -- The "Edom texts" in Samuel-Kings in inner- and extrabiblical perspective / by Stephen Germany -- Late historical Edom and reading Edom, Seir, and Esau in the prophetic literature through Persian lenses: preliminary observations / by Diana V. Edelman -- The contribution of Chronicles to the memory argument about Edom as reflected in the core repertoire of the Yehudite Literati of the late Persian/Early Hellenistic period / by Ehud Ben Zvi.

Call Number

JFF 22-761

ISBN

9781800501331
1800501331

LCCN

2022000685

OCLC

1302336014

Title

About Edom and Idumea in the Persian period : recent research and approaches from archaeology, Hebrew Bible studies and ancient Near East studies / edited by Benedikt Hensel, Ehud Ben Zvi, and Diana V. Edelman.

Publisher

Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Hensel, Benedikt, editor, author.

Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951- editor, author.

Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954- editor, author.

Other Form:

Online version: About Edom and Idumea in the Persian period Bristol : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2022 9781800501348 (DLC) 2022000686

Research Call Number

JFF 22-761

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