Identity in Persian Egypt : : The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine / / Bob Becking.
In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. The Yehudites were among those mercenaries recruited by the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. How Persian Power Entered Egypt
- Chapter 2. Yehudites at Elephantine: Provenance, Identity, and Religion
- Chapter 3. Multiethnic Elephantine: Some Remarks on Different Minor Ethnicities in a Persian Border Garrison
- Chapter 4. Pax Persica: Cooperation, Cohabitation, and Acceptance
- Chapter 5. Control Through Education, Law, and Military Power
- Chapter 6. Disruptions of the Interethnic Solidarity
- Chapter 7. “Khnum Is Against Us Since Hananiah Has Been in Egypt”: On Two Historical Movements in the Fifth Century BCE
- Chapter 8. Beyond the Final Curtain: The Aftermath of Elephantine
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors
- Index of Ancient Sources