The Babylonian Destruction of Jerusalem as a Symbol?: New Archaeological Evidence of the Babylonian Conquest
New excavation areas unearthed in Jerusalem in the last decade provide an oppor- tunity to reexamine the event of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the interpretation of the archaeological evidence it left behind. In this article I present evidence for destruction from two new sites locate...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2023, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-107 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Destruction
/ Symbol
/ Accounts receivable loans
/ Jerusalem
/ Babylon
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism HH Archaeology |
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| Summary: | New excavation areas unearthed in Jerusalem in the last decade provide an oppor- tunity to reexamine the event of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the interpretation of the archaeological evidence it left behind. In this article I present evidence for destruction from two new sites located in Ancient Jerusalem, highlight- ing the questions raised by it regarding the nature of the destruction. I then survey the evidence for the destruction published from past excavations and show that it suggests that the city's destruction was partial and selective rather than a complete devastation, as previously reconstructed. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/hebai-2023-0007 |