Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period / / ed. by Oded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming.

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• MitwirkendeR: Amit, Yairah,; Becking, Bob,; Berquist, Jon L.,; Blenkinsopp, J.,; Dandamayev, M. A.,; Edelman, Diana,; Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn,; Fantalkin, Alexander,; Fried, Lisbeth S.,; Grabbe, Lester L.,; Japhet, Sara,; Kessler, John,; Knauf, Ernst Axel,; Knoppers, Gary N.,; Kratz, Reinhard G.,; Lemaire, André,; Lipschits, Oded,; Liss, Hanna,; Oeming, Manfred,; Pearce, Laurie E.,; Polak, Frank H.,; Porten, Bezalel,; Stern, Ephraim,; Tal, Oren,; Ussishkin, David,; Vanderhooft, David,; Wright, John W.,; Yardeni, Ada,
• HerausgeberIn: Lipschits, Oded,; Oeming, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (744 p.)

In July 2003, a conference was held at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), focusing on the people and land of Judah during the 5th and early 4th centuries B.C.E.- the period when the Persian Empire held sway over the entire ancient Near East. This volume publishes the papers of the participants...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Historical, Epigraphical, and Archaeological Perspectives
• "We All Returned as One!": Critical Notes on the Myth of the Mass Return
• Achaemenid Imperial Policy, Settlement Processes in Palestine, and the Status of Jerusalem in the Middle of the Fifth Century b.c.e.
• Constructions of Identity in Postcolonial Yehud
• Remapping Yehud: The Borders of Yehud and the Genealogies of Chronicles
• Persia's Loyal Yahwists: Power Identity and Ethnicity in Achaemenid Yehud
• The 'am hā'āreṣ in Ezra 4:4 and Persian Imperial Administration
• The Borders and De Facto Size of Jerusalem in the Persian Period
• Redating Lachish Level I: Identifying Achaemenid Imperial Policy at the Southern Frontier of the Fifth Satrapy
• The Religious Revolution in Persian-Period Judah
• Tyrian Trade in Yehud under Artaxerxes I: Real or Fictional? Independent or Crown Endorsed?
• The Second Temple of Jeb and of Jerusalem
• Revisiting the Samarian Question in the Persian Period
• Bethel: The Israelite Impact on Judean Language and Literature
• Cyrus II, Liberator or Conqueror? Ancient Historiography concerning Cyrus in Babylon
• Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid State Administration in Mesopotamia
• New Evidence for Judeans in Babylonia
• New Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea and Their Historical Interpretation
• Social, Economic, and Onomastic Issues in the Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century b.c.e.
• Part 2 Biblical Perspectives
• Periodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah
• The Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah
• The "Persian Documents" in the Book of Ezra: Are They Authentic?
• "See, We Are Serving Today" (Nehemiah 9:36): Nehemiah 9 as a Theological Interpretation of the Persian Period
• Sociolinguistics and the Judean Speech Community in the Achaemenid Empire
• Benjamin Traditions Read in the Early Persian Period
• The Saul Polemic in the Persian Period
• The Imaginary Sanctuary: The Priestly Code as an Example of Fictional Literature in the Hebrew Bible
• Index of Authors
• Index of Scripture
• Index of Sites and Place-Names