Table of Contents

Preface Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction Part 2: Sources 2. Archaeology: Material Remains and Artifacts 3. Archaeology: Written Material 4. Ezra-Nehemiah (Including 1Esdras) 5. Other Biblical Books 6. Persian, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Sources 7. Greek and Latin Writers Part 3: Society and Institutions 8. Administration and Economy 9. Society and Daily Living 10. Religion: Temple, Cult and Practice 11. Religion: Law, Scripture and Belief Part 4: Historical Synthesis 12. Early Persian Yehud 13. Yehud in the Fifth Century 14. Yehud in the Fourth Century 15. A Holistic Perspective Appendices 1. The Question of Persian Influence on Jewish Thought and Religion 2. 'Diaspora' Jewish Communities Indexes Names and Subjects Citations Modern Scholars

About the Author

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

Reviews

…is a detailed overview of the scholarship on and primary textual and archaeological sources for the study of Persian period Yehud that eschews privileging of the biblical material but seeks to arrive at objective results by means of a careful synthesis of biblical and extrabiblical data.
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