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Photograph depicting the University of Pennsylvania excavations in Nippur in the 1890s. The Murašu archive was found in Nippur during the excavations in 1893. Judean farmers from the surrounding countryside visited Nippur to deal with the Babylonian Murašu family who were entrepreneurs in the land-for -service sector. The image is published in H. V. Hilprecht (1896), Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur II, plate XXX. The image is in the public domain, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

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Everyday Life in Exile: Judean Deportees in Babylonian Texts

June 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Tero Alstola When King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered the kingdom of Judah in the early sixth century BCE, part of Judean population was deported t