Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or
edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community
that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity.
At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from
Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding
of the process within its social, cultural and political context
virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark
age or black box - as obscure as it is essential for understanding
the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists
and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study
material remains from the period and integrate the local history of
Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem's
temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global,
developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have
also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that
illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy
and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society - factors that
affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple
ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various
advances.
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