Research Catalog

Title

The Neo-Babylonian empire and Babylon in the latter prophets / David Stephen Vanderhooft.

Author

Vanderhooft, David Stephen

Publication

• Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, [1999]
• ©1999

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Details

Description

xii, 246 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Vanderhooft reverses the usual focus within biblical studies by asking not how the Neo-Babylonian dynasty of about 605-539 BCE influenced Judah or particular biblical writers, but how the biblical texts illuminate the phenomenon of Babylonian imperialism. He focuses on the character and functions of the empire in its relations to the population of Judah and other subjugated peoples, and on what the responses of those populations can reveal about the empire. The treatment began as a doctoral dissertation for Harvard University in May 1996. This volume is in a series formerly distributed by Scholars Press, but now distributed by Eisebrauns. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Series Statement

• Harvard Semitic Museum publications
• Harvard Semitic monographs ; no. 59

Uniform Title

• Harvard Semitic Museum publications.
• Harvard Semitic monographs ; no. 59.

Subject

• Bible. > History of Biblical events
• Bible
• Bibel
• 11.43 Old Testament in relation to other cultures
• History of Biblical events
• Late profeten (bijbelboeken)
• Babylonia > History
• Middle East > Babylonia
• Babylonien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-232) and indexes.

Contents

Into the Eternal Shadow of Babylon Neo-Babylonian Ideas of Imperial Rule in the Royal Inscriptions -- The Titulary -- The Absence of Imperial Rhetoric in the Inscriptions of Nabopolassar -- The Evolution of Babylonian Imperial Ideas: Nebuchadnezzar -- The King's Call and Language of Imperial Hegemony -- Nebuchadnezzar as Protector of Humanity -- Babylon as Center of the World -- The King's Enemies -- Precedents and Summary -- Nabonidus's Reformulation -- Babylonian Imperial Administration in the Levant -- The Contraction of Assyria and Egypt's Rise in the Southern Levant -- The Contraction of Assyria -- Egypt's Rise in the Southern Levant -- Nebuchadnezzar's Arrival in the Levant -- Nebuchadnezzar's Empire -- Administrative Geography -- Territorial Divisions in the Empire -- Imperial Officials -- The Case of Judah -- Deportation -- Economic Geography -- Babylon in the Latter Prophets -- Micah 4:10 -- The Foreign Nation Oracles in the First Isaiah -- Isaiah 13 -- Isaiah 14:1-23 -- Isaiah 21:1-10 -- Jeremiah -- The Foe From the North -- The Babylonian King and His Administration -- Habakkuk 1-2 -- Ezekiel -- Ezekiel 17 -- Ezekiel 21:23-29 -- Second Isaiah -- Isaiah 40:18-20 -- Isaiah 46:1-2 -- Isaiah 47 -- Jeremiah 50:1-51:58 -- Descriptions of Babylon -- The Fall of Babylon.

ISBN

• 0788505793
• 9780788505799

LCCN

99038843

OCLC

• ocm41871564
• 41871564
• SCSB-14417715

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library