Exile and Return:
The Babylonian Context
Program
Thursday
Friday
9.30-10.20
9.30-10.00 Welcome
10.00-10.50 Laurie Pearce (Berkeley),
‘Identifying
Judeans
and
Judean Identity’
10.20-11.10
10.50-11.40 Ran Zadok (Tel Aviv), ‘West
Semitic groups in the Nippur
region between c. 750 and 330
BCE’
11.10-11.30
11.40-12.10 Coffee
11.30-12.20
12.10-13.00 Sivan Kedar (Tel Aviv), ‘The
Cuneiform Texts Mentioning
Israelites, Judeans, and Related
Population Groups (CTIJ)
12.20-13.10
Online
Corpus:
An
Introduction’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
13.10-14.30
14.00-14.50 Cornelia Wunsch (SOAS),
‘Judeans in Exile and their
14.30-15.20
Administrators, Neighbors, and
Business Partners’
14.50-15.40 Caroline Waerzeggers (UCL),
15:20-15:40
‘Locating Contact: Temples,
15:40-16:30
Priests and Foreigners’
15.40-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.50 Kathleen Abraham (Bar-Ilan),
‘Does the Al-Yahudu Marriage
16.30-17.20
Contract Reflect Jewish or
Babylonian Law?’
16.50-17.40 Michael Jursa and Johannes
Hackl (Vienna), ‘Egyptians in
Babylonia
in
the
NeoBabylonian and Achaemenid
Periods’
Irving
Finkel
(British
Museum), ‘The Babylonian
Exile and the Formation of
Judaism’
Jonathan Stökl (UCL), ‘New
Perspectives on the Hebrew bet
avot and the Babylonian bit
abi’
Coffee
Gauthier Tolini (Paris I), ‘From
Syria to Babylonia and Return:
The Archive of Neirab’
Lester Grabbe (Hull), ‘The
Reality of the Return: the
Biblical
Picture
Versus
Historical Reconstruction’
Lunch
Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv),
‘The
Babylonian
Administration in Judah’
Tea
Peter Bedford (Union College),
‘Temple Funding and Priestly
Authority in Achaemenid
Judah’
Katherine
Southwood
(Oxford), ‘The Impact of the
Second-Generation Returnees
as a Model for Understanding
the Post-Exilic Context’
Saturday
9.30-10.20
10.20-11.10
11.10-11.30
11.30-12.20
12.20-13.10
13.10-14.00
David Vanderhooft (Boston
College), ‘Ezekiel as an
Exemplar of Acculturation in
the Babylonian Milieu’
Madhavi Nevader (Glasgow),
‘Picking Up the Pieces of the
Little Prince: The Politics of
Priesthood in Ez 40-48’
Coffee
Rachel Magdalen (Leipzig),
‘The
Contracts
of
the
Babylonian Exiles and the
Contract Chronicles of Genesis
29–31: A Comparative Study’
Hugh Williamson (Oxford),
‘Contributions to the Setting of
Deutero-Isaiah:
Some
Linguistic Considerations’
Lunch