Approaching Yehud : new approaches to the study of the Persian period /

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Imprint:	Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 249 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Semeia studies ; no. 50 Semeia studies ; no. 50.
Subject:	Bible. -- Old Testament -- Historiography. Bible. -- Old Testament. Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Historiography. Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Historiography. Historiography. Jews -- Historiography. Yehud (Persian province) -- Historiography. Judaea (Region) -- Historiography. Asia -- Yehud (Persian province) Middle East -- Judaea Region. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11162918

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Other authors / contributors:	Berquist, Jon L.
ISBN:	9781435626959 1435626958 9781589831452 1589831454
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246). English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Approaching Yehud. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2007 9781589831452 1589831454

Table of 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: communityk, 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.

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