Oded Lipschits

Oded Lipschits

Oded Lipschits (born May 15, 1963 in Jerusalem ) is a lecturer in history at Tel Aviv University and director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archeology .

Life

Lipschits was born in Jerusalem in 1963 . While serving in the army, he served in an elite unit, and currently holds the rank of reserve major. He obtained his doctorate in 1997 from the Department of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University . The subject of his dissertation was "The Yehud Province under Babylonian Rule (586-539 BCE): Historical Reality and Historiographical Perspectives". It was published in a revised form. Lipschits has worked as a lecturer in the history of the Jewish people at Tel Aviv University since 2002 and, together with his mother Judith Lipschits, wrote several textbooks for high schools.

Jerusalem between destruction and renewal: Judah under Babylonian rule

Lipschits' book, which appeared in 2004, is an in-depth study of a hitherto neglected era. The book deals with the part of Israel that remained in Judah after the destruction of the First Temple until the beginning of the Second Temple era.

According to those reconstructions of history that are based on the biblical account, this is a dark phase in the history of the Jewish people, which went almost completely into exile. According to Lipschits, however, it is a highly significant epoch in the formation of Judaism in social, religious and economic terms, and with it begins a certain continuity and flowering of development. However, these aspects are not written down in the Bible, as the biblical view of history emphasizes the importance of the returnees from Babylon and minimizes the role of the population who remained in the land. This is due to the fact that the returning elite refused to come to terms with the fact that the people remaining in the country continue to lead his normal life, while the temple was destroyed in Jerusalem, and the population now mainly in the lowland settled and found alternative places of worship.

Publications

• The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem. Judah Under Babylonian Rule. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 2005.
• O. Lipschits and J. Blenkinsopp (Eds.): Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 2003.
• O. Lipschits and M. Oeming (Eds.): Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns 2006.

Web links

• Report on the 2005 excavation campaign in Ramat Rachel in Chadaschot Archeologijot 118 (2006) ( English and Hebrew )

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archeology . In: Israel Finkelstein, Myrna Pollak (Ed.): Tel Aviv - Journal of the Institute of Archeology of the Tel Aviv University . tape 45 , no. 2 . Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2018, ISSN  0334-4355 , pp. 4 .