The Neo-Babylonian empire and Babylon in the latter prophets / [print]
David Stephen Vanderhooft.
- Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, (c)1999.
- xii, 246 pages ; 23 cm.
- Harvard Semitic Museum publications Harvard Semitic monographs ; no. 59 .
- Harvard Semitic Museum publications. Harvard Semitic monographs ; no. 59. .
Into the Eternal Shadow of Babylon Neo-Babylonian Ideas of Imperial Rule in the Royal Inscriptions -- The Titulary -- The Absence of Imperial Rhetoric in the Inscriptions of Nabopolassar -- The Evolution of Babylonian Imperial Ideas: Nebuchadnezzar -- The King's Call and Language of Imperial Hegemony -- Nebuchadnezzar as Protector of Humanity -- Babylon as Center of the World -- The King's Enemies -- Precedents and Summary -- Nabonidus's Reformulation -- Babylonian Imperial Administration in the Levant -- The Contraction of Assyria and Egypt's Rise in the Southern Levant -- The Contraction of Assyria -- Egypt's Rise in the Southern Levant -- Nebuchadnezzar's Arrival in the Levant -- Nebuchadnezzar's Empire -- Administrative Geography -- Territorial Divisions in the Empire -- Imperial Officials -- The Case of Judah -- Deportation -- Economic Geography -- Babylon in the Latter Prophets -- Micah 4:10 -- The Foreign Nation Oracles in the First Isaiah -- Isaiah 13 -- Isaiah 14:1-23 -- Isaiah 21:1-10 -- Jeremiah -- The Foe From the North -- The Babylonian King and His Administration -- Habakkuk 1-2 -- Ezekiel -- Ezekiel 17 -- Ezekiel 21:23-29 -- Second Isaiah -- Isaiah 40:18-20 -- Isaiah 46:1-2 -- Isaiah 47 -- Jeremiah 50:1-51:58 -- Descriptions of Babylon -- The Fall of Babylon.