Israel and Judah Redefined: Migration, Trauma, and Empire in the Sixth Century Bce

by C.L. Crouch

In Israel and Judah Redefined, C. L. Crouch uses trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and social-scientific research on migration to analyse the impact of mass displacements and imperial power on Israelite and Judahite identity in the sixth century BCE. Crouch argues that the trauma of deportation affected Israelite identity differently depending on resettlement context. Deportees resettled in rural Babylonia took an isolationist approach to Israelite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108473768
• ISBN13: 9781108473767
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"