By Joel Weinberg

Often operating below significantly limited educational and social stipulations, the Latvian student Joel Weinberg has made a different and demanding contribution to bible study. inspired via Soviet paintings in historical close to japanese heritage, Weinberg's distinct strategy is in discussion with scholarship in either jap and Western eu traditions. This translation brings jointly seven essays initially released in Russian, then translated and accelerated by means of Weinberg into German. The essays shape the root of what was once initially Weinberg's dissertation. e-book of those essays in English won't in basic terms let scholars and students more straightforward entry to Weinberg's concept, yet will let students to judge the reviews jointly, and hence facilitate the present discussion at the Babylonian exile, and the postexilic period.

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7-12. 2. An indirect argument is afforded by the conclusion of E. Stern ("The Land of Israel in the Persian Period' [Hebrew], Qadmoniot 2 [1969], p. 114) that 70-80% of all the ceramics found in Babylonian Judah belonged to the local, pre-exilic type. 3. -Z. Lurje, 'Edom according to the Prophets at the Time of the Return', PHLHB 2 (1956), pp. 95-98; Kreissig, Wirtschaftliche Situation, pp. 57-59. 4. I. Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East (New York, 1949), pp. 92-95. 1 Many towns of Northern Judah—Gibeon, Bethel, Mizpah, for example— remained undisturbed or were only partially destroyed and temporarily abandoned.

1 In most areas—for example in Syria and Mesopotamia, Aramaic was a colloquial language of the population, concurrent with, and most of the time superseding, the local languages. This officially sanctioned expansion of Aramaic was an important promoter of syncretistic tendencies, but it also created active, zealous opposition—for example in the Palestinian community—where there was a struggle for the purity of the old Hebrew language. This result is similar to the temple communities of Mesopotamia, where the Akkadian language was cultivated.

7-12. 2. An indirect argument is afforded by the conclusion of E. Stern ("The Land of Israel in the Persian Period' [Hebrew], Qadmoniot 2 [1969], p. 114) that 70-80% of all the ceramics found in Babylonian Judah belonged to the local, pre-exilic type. 3. -Z. Lurje, 'Edom according to the Prophets at the Time of the Return', PHLHB 2 (1956), pp. 95-98; Kreissig, Wirtschaftliche Situation, pp. 57-59. 4. I. Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East (New York, 1949), pp. 92-95. 1 Many towns of Northern Judah—Gibeon, Bethel, Mizpah, for example— remained undisturbed or were only partially destroyed and temporarily abandoned.

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