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Book Synopsis
The workshop “People on the Move: Framework, Means, and Impact of Mobility across the East Mediterranean Region in the 8th to 6th Century BC,” held at the University of Basel in Switzerland from 3-6 August 2015, which forms the basis of this volume, addressed the question of how the increased cross-regional mobility of people and commodities in the wake of the Kushite, Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and early Achaemenid expansions into the eastern Mediterranean affected travellers, the communities they left behind, and the communities that received them.
As demonstrated by the papers published here, the diversity of the sources this period and place requires a large number of specializations, both within the various area studies and regarding cross-regional connectivity.
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INTRODUCTION
The Eastern Mediterranean Area of Connectivity in the 8th-6th Century BCE-Setting an Agenda Melanie Wasmuth
ARTICLES
‘He Will Raise an Ensign to a Nation Afar, Whistle to One at the End of the Earth’: The Assyrian and Babylonian Armies as Described in Prophetic Texts and Mesopotamian Inscriptions Idan Breier
Egypt and Assyria in Isaiah 11:11-16 Dan'el Khan
Pharaonic Prelude-Being on the Move in Ancient Egypt from Predynastic Times to the End of the New Kingdom Heidi Köpp-Junk
The Standard of Living of the Judean Military Colony at Elephantine in Persian Period Egypt Alexander Schütze
Cultural and Religious Impacts of Long-Term Cross-Cultural Migration Between Egypt and the Levant Thomas Staubli
Cross-Regional Mobility in ca. 700 BCE: The Case of Ass. 8642a/IstM A 1924 Melanie Wasmuth
Synthesis: Summaries and Responses: The Editors & Authors
