By John J. Ahn
Exile as compelled Migrations injects innovative experiences on compelled migrations (DIDPS, IDPs, Refugee studies), displacement and resettlement, and generational concerns that mark the exilic interval (6th century B.C.E.). Founder and co-chair of the “Exile/Forced Migrations in Biblical Literature” (Society of Biblical Literature) and a member of the yank Sociological organization (International Migration Section), Ahn furnishes biblical students with up to date sociological info to ascertain severely, the exile as compelled migrations within the cadre of economics of migrations. Biblically talking, Ahn isolates the 3 various perspectives at the exile. The 70 years in Babylon is forged as 3 and a part generations, with every one Judeo-Babylonian iteration (first-“1.5”-second-third) responding to its personal set of matters and issues (Ps 137, Jer 29, Isa forty three, Num 32). This definitive paintings reframes the method of learn of the exilic interval, as “generation-units”, sociologically, from the 1st pressured migration in 597 B.C.E. to the 1st go back migrations in 538 B.C.E. Exile as compelled Migrations is going past conventional emphasis on an enormous edifice and its establishment. It rightfully returns to peoples in flight and plight.
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