Endnote 2 - How Bad Was the Babylonian Exile?
A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000), p. 102.
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A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000), p. 102.
Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch, Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer, CUSAS 28 (Bethesda: CDL Press, 2014).
For diachronic studies dealing specifically with Late Biblical Hebrew, see Aaron D. Hornkohl, Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah: The Case for a Sixth-Century Date of Composition (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014); Avi Hurvitz, “Biblical Hebrew, Late,” in Geoffrey Khan, ed., Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 1 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), pp.
Frederick H. Cryer, “The Problem of Dating Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of Daniel,” in Knud Jeppesen, Kirsten Nielsen and Bent Rosendal, eds., In the Last Days: On Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic and Its Period (Festschrift Benedikt Otzen) (Aarhus: Aarhus Univ. Press, 1994), p. 192.
Although certain phenomena characteristic of the late period at times appear sporadically in earlier compositions, an outstanding accumulation of these features may be found only in the decisively late sources.