{"product_id":"judah-and-the-judeans-in-the-achaemenid-period-negotiating-identity-in-an-international-context-9781575061979","title":"Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarlier volumes in the series of conferences are: \u003ci\u003eJudah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJudah and the Judeans in the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJudah and the Judeans in the in the Fourth Century B.C.E.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1 \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Identity: Diversity within the Biblical Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudean Identity and Ecumenicity: The Political Theology of the Priestly Document\u003c\/i\u003e Konrad Schmid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTorah and Identity in the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e Joachim Schaper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Absent Presence: Cultural Responses to Persian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean\u003c\/i\u003e Anselm C. Hagedorn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56–66\u003c\/i\u003e Christophe Nihan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrito-Isaiah’s Intra- and Internationalization: Identity Markers in the Second Temple Period\u003c\/i\u003e Jill Middlemas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Ezekiel to Ezra–Nehemiah: Shifts of Group Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e Dalit Rom-Shiloni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsrael’s Identity and the Threat of the Nations in the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e Jakob Wöhrle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rite of Separation of the Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah\u003c\/i\u003e Yonina Dor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Holy Seed: The Significance of Endogamous Boundaries and Their Transgression in Ezra 9–10\u003c\/i\u003e Katherine Southwood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Do Priests and Kings Have in Common? Priestly and Royal Succession Narratives in the Achaemenid Era\u003c\/i\u003e Deirdre N. Fulton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Identity: Cultural, Historical, Social, and Environmental Factors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYahwistic Names in Light of Late Babylonian Onomastics\u003c\/i\u003e Paul-Alain Beaulieu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Judean”: A Special Status in Neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia?\u003c\/i\u003e Laurie E. Pearce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Observations on the Traditions Surrounding “Israel in Egypt”\u003c\/i\u003e Donald Redford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudean Identity in Elephantine: Everyday Life according to the Ostraca\u003c\/i\u003e André Lemaire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e Joachim Friedrich Quack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYehudite Identity in Elephantine\u003c\/i\u003e Bob Becking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudean Ambassadors and the Making of Jewish Identity: The Case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah\u003c\/i\u003e Reinhard G. Kratz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNegotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Coinages of Persian-Period Palestine as an Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e Oren Tal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph Blenkinsopp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Controversy about Judean versus Israelite Identity and the Persian Government: A New Interpretation of the Bagoses Story (Jewish Antiquities XI.297–301)\u003c\/i\u003e Rainer Albertz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurviving in an Imperial Context: Foreign Military Service and Judean Identity\u003c\/i\u003e Jacob L. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e’el-medînâ ûmedînâ kiktabah: Scribes and Scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid Transeuphratene\u003c\/i\u003e David S. Vanderhooft\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Identity in the Eastern Diaspora in Light of the Book of Tobit\u003c\/i\u003e Manfred Oeming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Identity of the Idumeans Based on the Archaeological Evidence from Maresha\u003c\/i\u003e Amos Kloner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndexes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Scripture\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188734091607,"sku":"9781575061979","price":58.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/judah-and-the-judeans-in-the-achaemenid-period-negotiating-identity-in-an-international-context-9781575061979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}