{"product_id":"judah-and-the-judeans-in-the-persian-period-9781575061047","title":"Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParticipants 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conference was the second of three meetings; the first, held at Tel Aviv in May 2001, was published as \u003ci\u003eJudah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWe All Returned as One!’:Critical Notes on the Myth of the Mass Return\u003c\/i\u003e Bob Becking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAchaemenid Imperial Policy, Settlement Processes in Palestine, and the Status of Jerusalem in the Middle of the Fifth Century B.C.E.\u003c\/i\u003e Oded Lipschits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstructions of Identity in Postcolonial Yehud\u003c\/i\u003e Jon L. Berquist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemapping Yehud: The Borders of Yehud and the Genealogies of Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e John W. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersia’s Loyal Yahwists: Power Identity and Ethnicity in Achaemenid Yehud\u003c\/i\u003e John Kessler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ‘am ha’arets in Ezra 4:4 and Persian Imperial Administration\u003c\/i\u003e Lisbeth S. Fried\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Borders and De Facto Size of Jerusalem in the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e David Ussishkin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRedating Lachish Level I: Identifying Achaemenid Imperial Policy at the Southern Frontier of the Fifth Satrapy\u003c\/i\u003e Alexander Fantalkin and Oren Tal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Religious Revolution in Persian-Period Judah\u003c\/i\u003e Ephraim Stern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTyrian Trade in Yehud under Artaxerxes I: Real or Fictional? Independent or Crown Endorsed?\u003c\/i\u003e Diana Edelman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second Temple of Jeb and of Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e Reinhard G. Kratz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevisiting the Samarian Question in the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e Gary N. Knoppers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBethel: The Israelite Impact on Judean Language and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e Ernst Axel Knauf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCyrus II, Liberator or Conqueror? Ancient Historiography concerning Cyrus in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e David Vanderhooft\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeo-Babylonian and Achaemenid State Administration in Mesopotamia\u003c\/i\u003e M. A. Dandamayev\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Evidence for Judeans in Babylonia\u003c\/i\u003e Laurie E. Pearce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea and Their Historical Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e André Lemaire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Economic and Onomastic Issues in the Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century BCE\u003c\/i\u003e Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeriodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah\u003c\/i\u003e Sara Japhet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah\u003c\/i\u003e Tamara Cohn Eskenazi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ‘Persian Documents’ in the Book of Ezra: Are They Authentic?\u003c\/i\u003e Lester L. Grabbe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘See, We Are Serving Today’ (Nehemiah 9:36): Nehemiah 9 as a Theological Interpretation of the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e Manfred Oeming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSociolinguistics and the Judean Speech Community in the Achaemenid Empire\u003c\/i\u003e Frank H. Polak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Traditions Read in the Early Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e J. Blenkinsopp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Saul Polemic in the Persian Period\u003c\/i\u003e Yairah Amit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Sanctuary: The Priestly Code as an Example of Fictional Literature in the Hebrew Bible\u003c\/i\u003e Hanna Liss\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Sites and Place-Names\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188732125527,"sku":"9781575061047","price":61.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/judah-and-the-judeans-in-the-persian-period-9781575061047","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}