Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period

Published by Penn State University Press 2006

Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period

Edited by: Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065618

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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 in the working group that attended the Heidelberg conference.

Participants whose contributions appear here include: Y. Amit, B. Becking, J. Berquist, J. Blenkinsopp, M. Dandamayev, D. Edelman, T. Eskenazi, A. Fantalkin and O. Tal, L. Fried, L. Grabbe, S. Japhet, J. Kessler, E. A. Knauf, G. Knoppers, R. Kratz, A. Lemaire, O. Lipschits, H. Liss, M. Oeming, L. Pearce, F. Polak, B. Porten and A. Yardeni, E. Stern, D. Ussishkin, D. Vanderhooft, and J. Wright.

The conference was the second of three meetings; the first, held at Tel Aviv in May 2001, was published as Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period by Eisenbrauns in 2003. A third conference focusing on Judah and the Judeans in the Hellenistic era was held in the summer of 2005, at Münster, Germany, and will also be published by Eisenbrauns.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Part 1 Historical, Epigraphical, and Archaeological Perspectives
“We All Returned as One!”: Critical Notes on the Myth of the Mass Return Bob Becking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Achaemenid Imperial Policy, Settlement Processes in Palestine, and the Status of Jerusalem in the Middle of the Fifth Century b.c.e. Oded Lipschits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Constructions of Identity in Postcolonial Yehud Jon L. Berquist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Remapping Yehud: The Borders of Yehud and the Genealogies of Chronicles John W. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Persia’s Loyal Yahwists: Power Identity and Ethnicity in Achaemenid Yehud John Kessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
The ‘am hā’āreṣ in Ezra 4:4 and Persian Imperial Administration Lisbeth S. Fried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The Borders and De Facto Size of Jerusalem in the Persian Period David Ussishkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Redating Lachish Level I: Identifying Achaemenid Imperial Policy at the Southern Frontier of the Fifth Satrapy Alexander Fantalkin and Oren Tal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
The Religious Revolution in Persian-Period Judah Ephraim Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Tyrian Trade in Yehud under Artaxerxes I: Real or Fictional? Independent or Crown Endorsed? Diana Edelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
The Second Temple of Jeb and of Jerusalem Reinhard G. Kratz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Revisiting the Samarian Question in the Persian Period Gary N. Knoppers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Bethel: The Israelite Impact on Judean Language and Literature Ernst Axel Knauf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Cyrus II, Liberator or Conqueror? Ancient Historiography concerning Cyrus in Babylon David Vanderhooft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid State Administration in Mesopotamia M. A. Dandamayev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
New Evidence for Judeans in Babylonia Laurie E. Pearce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
New Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea and Their Historical Interpretation André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Social, Economic, and Onomastic Issues in the Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century b.c.e. Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Part 2 Biblical Perspectives
Periodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra–Nehemiah Sara Japhet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
The Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah Tamara Cohn Eskenazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
The “Persian Documents” in the Book of Ezra: Are They Authentic? Lester L. Grabbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
“See, We Are Serving Today” (Nehemiah 9:36): Nehemiah 9 as a Theological Interpretation of the Persian Period Manfred Oeming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	571
Sociolinguistics and the Judean Speech Community in the Achaemenid Empire Frank H. Polak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589
Benjamin Traditions Read in the Early Persian Period J. Blenkinsopp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
The Saul Polemic in the Persian Period Yairah Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	647
The Imaginary Sanctuary: The Priestly Code as an Example of Fictional Literature in the Hebrew Bible Hanna Liss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	663
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	691
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	701
Index of Sites and Place-Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	716

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: May 25, 2006
ISBN: 9781575065618