Judah in the neo-Babylonian period : the archaeology of desolation - Faust, Avi. (Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2012)
The end of the Iron Age in Judah: primary archeological data -- Judah in the sixth to second century B.C.E.: a rural perspective -- Greek imports and the neo-Babylonian period -- Social and cultural changes in Judah: the iron age to the Persian period -- Settlement and demography in Judah: the seventh to second centuries B.C.E -- The Babylonian destruction in context: Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib compared -- Sixth-century Judah as a post-collapse society -- Consequences of destruction: the continuity theory revisited -- The land of Benjamin revisited -- Life in Judah in the sixth century B.C.E -- Judah in the sixth century B.C.E.: summary and conclusions.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-290) and indexes.
Keywords: Jews -- History -- Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Palestine; Jews -- Material culture -- Palestine; Material culture -- Palestine; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.; Iron age -- Palestine; Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D.; Palestine -- Antiquities