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

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

Anselm C. Hagedorn
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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 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:
the biblical evidence ; and
the cultural, historical, social, and environmental factors affecting the formation of national identity.

- Judean identity and ecumenicity : the political theology of the priestly document by Konrad Schmid
- Torah and identity in the Persian period by Joachim Schaper
- The absent presence: cultural responses to Persian presence in the Eastern Mediterranean by Anselm C. Hagedorn
- Ethnicity and identity in Isaiah 56-66 by Christophe Nihan
- Trito-Isaiah's intra- and internationalization: identity markers in the Second Temple period by Jill Middlemas
- From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: shifts of group identities within Babylonian exilic ideology by Dalit Rom-Shiloni
- Israel's identity and the threat of the nations in the Persian period by Jakob Wöhrle
- The rite of separation of the foreign wives in Ezra-Nehemiah by Yonina Dor
- The holy seed: the significance of endogamous boundaries and their transgression in Ezra 9-10 by Katherine Southwood
- What do priests and kings have in common?: priestly and royal succession narratives in the Achaemenid Era by Deirdre N. Fulton
- Yahwistic names in light of late Babylonian onomastics by Paul-Alain Beaulieu
- "Judean": a special status in neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia? by Laurie E. Pearce
- Some observations on the traditions surrounding "Israel in Egypt" by Donald Redford
- Judean identity in Elephantine: everyday life according to the Ostraca by André Lemaire
- The interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic literature by Joachim Friedrich Quack
- Yehudite identity in Elephantine by Bob Becking
- Judean ambassadors and the making of Jewish identity: the case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah by Reinhard G. Kratz
- Negotiating identity in an international context under Achaemenid rule: the indigenous coinages of Persian-period Palestine as an allegory by Oren Tal
- Judaeans, Jews, children of Abraham by Joseph Blenkinsopp
- The controversy about Judean versus Israelite identity and the Persian government: a new interpretation of the Bagoses story by Rainer Albertz
- Surviving in an imperial context: foreign military service and Judean identity by Jacob L. Wright
- 'el-mĕdînâ ûmĕdînâ kiktābāh: scribes and scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid transeuphratene by David S. Vanderhooft
- Jewish identity in the Eastern diaspora in light of the book of Tobit by Manfred Oeming
- The identity of the Idumeans based on the archaeological evidence from Maresha by Amos Kloner
Language
English
Pages
616
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Release
June 30, 2011
ISBN
157506197X
ISBN 13
9781575061979

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

Anselm C. Hagedorn
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In April, 2008, an international colloquium was held at the University of Heidelberg the fourth convocation of a group of scholars 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:
the biblical evidence ; and
the cultural, historical, social, and environmental factors affecting the formation of national identity.

- Judean identity and ecumenicity : the political theology of the priestly document by Konrad Schmid
- Torah and identity in the Persian period by Joachim Schaper
- The absent presence: cultural responses to Persian presence in the Eastern Mediterranean by Anselm C. Hagedorn
- Ethnicity and identity in Isaiah 56-66 by Christophe Nihan
- Trito-Isaiah's intra- and internationalization: identity markers in the Second Temple period by Jill Middlemas
- From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: shifts of group identities within Babylonian exilic ideology by Dalit Rom-Shiloni
- Israel's identity and the threat of the nations in the Persian period by Jakob Wöhrle
- The rite of separation of the foreign wives in Ezra-Nehemiah by Yonina Dor
- The holy seed: the significance of endogamous boundaries and their transgression in Ezra 9-10 by Katherine Southwood
- What do priests and kings have in common?: priestly and royal succession narratives in the Achaemenid Era by Deirdre N. Fulton
- Yahwistic names in light of late Babylonian onomastics by Paul-Alain Beaulieu
- "Judean": a special status in neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia? by Laurie E. Pearce
- Some observations on the traditions surrounding "Israel in Egypt" by Donald Redford
- Judean identity in Elephantine: everyday life according to the Ostraca by André Lemaire
- The interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic literature by Joachim Friedrich Quack
- Yehudite identity in Elephantine by Bob Becking
- Judean ambassadors and the making of Jewish identity: the case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah by Reinhard G. Kratz
- Negotiating identity in an international context under Achaemenid rule: the indigenous coinages of Persian-period Palestine as an allegory by Oren Tal
- Judaeans, Jews, children of Abraham by Joseph Blenkinsopp
- The controversy about Judean versus Israelite identity and the Persian government: a new interpretation of the Bagoses story by Rainer Albertz
- Surviving in an imperial context: foreign military service and Judean identity by Jacob L. Wright
- 'el-mĕdînâ ûmĕdînâ kiktābāh: scribes and scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid transeuphratene by David S. Vanderhooft
- Jewish identity in the Eastern diaspora in light of the book of Tobit by Manfred Oeming
- The identity of the Idumeans based on the archaeological evidence from Maresha by Amos Kloner
Language
English
Pages
616
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Release
June 30, 2011
ISBN
157506197X
ISBN 13
9781575061979

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