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Approaching Yehud : new approaches to the study of the Persian period
- Title
- Approaching Yehud : new approaches to the study of the Persian period / edited by Jon L. Berquist.
- Publication
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Berquist, Jon L.
- Description
- ix, 249 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The long-held view that the Persian period in Israel (known as Yehud) was a historically derivative era that engendered little theological or literary innovation has been replaced in recent decades by an appreciation for the importance of the Persian period for understanding Israel's literature, religion, and sense of identity. A new image of Yehud is emerging that has shifted the focus from viewing the postexilic period as a staging ground for early Judaism or Christianity to dealing with Yehud on its own terms, as a Persian colony with a diverse population. Taken together, the thirteen chapters in this volume represent a range of studies that touch on a variety of textual and historical problems to advance the conversation about the significance of the Persian period and especially its formative influence on biblical literature. --From publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Semeia studies ; no. 50
- Uniform Title
- Semeia studies ; no. 50.
- Subjects
- 586 B.C.-210 A.D
- History
- Bible > Historiography
- Eretz Israel > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D., Exilic and Second Temple period
- Judea
- Israel > Altertum
- Middle East > Judaea Region
- Asia > Yehud (Persian province)
- Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D > Historiography
- Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D., Exilic and Second Temple period > Historiography
- Oude Testament
- Jodendom
- Jews > Historiography
- Historiography
- Judaea (Region) > Historiography
- Yehud (Persian province) > Historiography
- Bible > Old Testament > Historiography
- Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D > Historiography
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-246).
- Contents
- Approaching Yehud / Jon L. Berquist -- Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Persian period / Melody D. Knowles -- Intertextuality in the Persian period / Richard Bautch -- What mean these stones? : inscriptions, textuality and power in Persia and Yehud / Donald C. Polaski -- Scholars, witches, ideologues, and what the text said : Ezra 9-10 and its interpretation / David Janzen -- "How lonely sits the city" : identity and the creation of history / Christine Mitchell -- "A world under control" : Isaiah 60 and the Apadana reliefs from Persepolis / Brent A. Strawn -- An exile's baggage : toward a postcolonial reading of Ezekiel / Jean-Pierre Ruiz -- Diaspora and homeland in the early Achaemenid period : community, geography and demography in Zechariah 1-8 / John Kessler -- The strange woman in Persian Yehud : a reading of Proverbs 7 / Herbert R. Marbury -- Qoheleth in love and trouble / Jennifer L. Koosed -- Psalms, postcolonialism, and the construction of the self / Jon L. Berquist -- In the beginning--again / Alice W. Hunt -- From exile to empire : a response / Julia M. O'Brien.
- ISBN
- 9781589831452
- 1589831454
- LCCN
- 2007035327
- OCLC
- ocn168717363
- 168717363
- SCSB-14376976
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library