Assessing biblical and classical sources for the reconstruction of Persian influence, history, and culture
By: edited by Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
Series: Classica et orientalia -- Band 10; Classica et orientalia -- Bd. 10.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9783447102445
Subjects: Congresses; History of contemporary events; History; Historiography; Quelle; Bible; Bibel
Description: "This volume brings together the views of biblical scholars, Achaemenid historians and classicists in relation to the problems of reconstructing the history of the Persian empire. It addresses the ways in which scholars of each of these disciplines have struggled with the complexity and limitations of the ancient sources. Some of the essays in this volume discuss issues surrounding the identification of authorial biases and evaluate what - if anything - remains as possible 'historical' evidence, while others examine the scholarly consensus on the question of Persian policy on the religion and laws of its subjects. What unites the essays in this volume is the commitment of their authors to recognize the difficulties with the sources and to constantly engage in new appraisals of them in dialog with scholars in their own and also in related fields."--Back cover.
Notes: Papers from a conference held June 24-26, 2010 at Trinity College in Dublin.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Herodotus on the character of Persian imperialism (7.5-11); title: The use and abuse of Herodotus by biblical scholars; title: The justice of Darius: reflections on teh Achaemenid Empire as a rule-bound environment; title: Indigenous elites in Yehud: the inscriptional evidence form Xanthus, Tayma and Dedan and the Nehemiah memoir; title: What is 'Persian' about the Book of Genesis?; title: Admiring others: Xenophon and Persians; title: From fact to fiction: Persian history and the book of Esther; title: Judahite prophecy and the Achamenids