Approaching Yehud
Subtitle: new approaches to the study of the Persian period
By: edited by Jon L. Berquist.
Contributors: Berquist, Jon L.
Series: Semeia studies -- no. 50
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781589831452
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Historiography; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Historiography; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Historiography; Yehud (Persian province) -- Historiography; Judaea (Region) -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-246).
Table of contents: title: Approaching Yehud / Jon L. Berquist; title: Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Persian period / Melody D. Knowles; title: Intertextuality in the Persian period / Richard Bautch; title: What mean these stones? : inscriptions, textuality and power in Persia and Yehud / Donald C. Polaski; title: Scholars, witches, ideologues, and what the text said : Ezra 9-10 and its interpretation / David Janzen; title: "How lonely sits the city" : identity and the creation of history / Christine Mitchell; title: "A world under control" : Isaiah 60 and the Apadana reliefs from Persepolis / Brent A. Strawn; title: An exile's baggage : toward a postcolonial reading of Ezekiel / Jean-Pierre Ruiz; title: Diaspora and homeland in the early Achaemenid period : community, geography and demography in Zechariah 1-8 / John Kessler; title: The strange woman in Persian Yehud : a reading of Proverbs 7 / Herbert R. Marbury; title: Qoheleth in love and trouble / Jennifer L. Koosed; title: Psalms, postcolonialism, and the construction of the self / Jon L. Berquist; title: In the beginning; title: again / Alice W. Hunt; title: From exile to empire : a response / Julia M. O'Brien.