Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context

Published by Penn State University Press 2011

Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period

Negotiating Identity in an International Context

Edited by: Oded Lipschits , Gary N. Knoppers and Manfred Oeming

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575066493

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In April, 2008, an international colloquium was held at the University of Heidelberg—the fourth convocation of a group of scholars (with some rotating members) who gathered to discuss the status of Judah and the Judeans in the exilic and postexilic periods. The goal of this gathering was specifically to address the question of national identity in the period when many now believe this very issue was in significant foment and development, the era of the Persian/Achaemenid domination of the ancient Near East.

This volume contains most of the papers delivered at the Heidelberg conference, considering the matter under two rubrics: (1) the biblical evidence (and the diversity of data from the Bible); and (2) the cultural, historical, social, and environmental factors affecting the formation of national identity.

Contributors: K. Schmid, J. Schaper, A. C. Hagedorn, C. Nihan, J. Middlemas, D. Rom-Shiloni, J. Wöhrle, Y. Dor, K. Southwood, D. N. Fulton, P.-A. Beaulieu, L. E. Pearce, D. Redford, A. Lemaire, J. F. Quack, B. Becking, R. G. Kratz, O. Tal, J. Blenkinsopp, R. Albertz, J. L. Wright, D. S. Vanderhooft, M. Oeming, and A. Kloner.

Earlier volumes in the series of conferences are: Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period, Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period, and Judah and the Judeans in the in the Fourth Century B.C.E.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Part 1 Negotiating Identity: Diversity within the Biblical Evidence
Judean Identity and Ecumenicity: The Political Theology of the Priestly Document Konrad Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Torah and Identity in the Persian Period Joachim Schaper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
The Absent Presence: Cultural Responses to Persian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean Anselm C. Hagedorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Ethnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56–66 Christophe Nihan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Trito-Isaiah’s Intra- and Internationalization: Identity Markers in the Second Temple Period Jill Middlemas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
From Ezekiel to Ezra–Nehemiah: Shifts of Group Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology Dalit Rom-Shiloni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Israel’s Identity and the Threat of the Nations in the Persian Period Jakob Wöhrle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Rite of Separation of the Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah Yonina Dor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Holy Seed: The Significance of Endogamous Boundaries and Their Transgression in Ezra 9–10 Katherine Southwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
What Do Priests and Kings Have in Common? Priestly and Royal Succession Narratives in the Achaemenid Era Deirdre N. Fulton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Part 2 Negotiating Identity: Cultural, Historical, Social, and Environmental Factors
Yahwistic Names in Light of Late Babylonian Onomastics Paul-Alain Beaulieu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
“Judean”: A Special Status in Neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia? Laurie E. Pearce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Some Observations on the Traditions Surrounding “Israel in Egypt” Donald Redford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Judean Identity in Elephantine: Everyday Life according to the Ostraca André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
The Interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic Literature Joachim Friedrich Quack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Yehudite Identity in Elephantine Bob Becking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Judean Ambassadors and the Making of Jewish Identity: The Case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah Reinhard G. Kratz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Negotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Coinages of Persian-Period Palestine as an Allegory Oren Tal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Judaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham Joseph Blenkinsopp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
The Controversy about Judean versus Israelite Identity and the Persian Government: A New Interpretation of the Bagoses Story (Jewish Antiquities XI.297–301) Rainer Albertz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Surviving in an Imperial Context: Foreign Military Service and Judean Identity Jacob L. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
ʾel-mĕdînâ ûmĕdînâ kiktābāh: Scribes and Scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid Transeuphratene David S. Vanderhooft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
Jewish Identity in the Eastern Diaspora in Light of the Book of Tobit Manfred Oeming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545
The Identity of the Idumeans Based on the Archaeological Evidence from Maresha Amos Kloner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	563
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: June 23, 2011
ISBN: 9781575066493