Leading captivity captive "the Exile" as history and ideology (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998)
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Introduction / Lester L. Grabbe -- Die Exilszeit als Ernstfall für eine historische Rekonstruktion ohne biblische Texte : die neubabylonischen Königsinschriften als 'Primärquelle' / Rainer Albertz -- Ezra's re-enactment of the exile / Bob Becking -- Exile! What exile? : deportation and the discourses of diaspora / Robert P. Carroll -- 'The exile' under the Theodolite : historiography as triangulation / Lester L. Grabbe -- The exile in history and myth : a response to Hans Barstad / Thomas L. Thompson -- The strange fear of the Bible : some reflections on the 'bibliophobia' in recent ancient Israelite historiography / Hans M. Barstad -- Exile? What exile? Whose exile? / Philip R. Davies -- Exile a period--exile a myth / Knud Jeppesen -- Reflections on the discussion / Lester L. Grabbe
In a methodological discussion of this issue, the contributors cover a range of topics, from ancient poltics to modern ideology. The entity known as 'the Exile' has had an extremely forceful influence in Old Testament scholarship, both as an event and as a symbol. But was there an 'Exile'? And if so, how did it fit into the pattern of population deportations that characterized the imperial strategies of the ancient Near East? In a major methodological discussion of this issue, the contributors to this symposium of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology cover a range of topics, from anc