Exile and restoration revisited : essays on the Babylonian and Persian periods in memory of Peter R. Ackroyd PDF
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LIBRARY OF SECOND TEMPLE STUDIES 73 formerlytheJournalfortheStudyofthePseudepigraphaSupplementSeries Editor Lester L. Grabbe EditorialBoard Randall D. Chesnutt, Philip R. Davies,Jan WillemvanHenten, Judith M.Lieu, StevenMason, James R. Mueller, Loren T.Stuckenbruck, James C.VanderKam FoundingEditor James H. Charlesworth This page intentionally left blank EXILE AND RESTORATION REVISITED Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd EDITED BY GARY N. KNOPPERS AND LESTER L. GRABBE, WITH DEIRDRE N. FULTON Copyright # Gary N. Knoppers, Lester L. Grabbe, Deirdre N. Fulton and contributors 2009 Published by T&T Clark A Continuum imprint The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704, New York, NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. ThepictureofOstracon283fromMaqqedah(Figure1intheBeckingchapter) is published with the permission of Professor André Lemaire, Paris, who first edited the ostracon and with permission of the publisher, J. Gabalda, Paris. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-567-12256-8 Typeset by Data Standards Ltd, Frome, Somerset, UK Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group CONTENTS LISTOFABBREVIATIONS vii LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS xi INTRODUCTION 1 Lester L. Grabbe and Gary N. Knoppers 1. ONTHE IDENTITYOFTHE ‘FOREIGN’ WOMENIN EZRA 9–10 31 Bob Becking 2. THE PERSIAN PERIODAS PENITENTIAL ERA: THE ‘EXEGETICAL LOGIC’ OF DANIEL 9.1-27 50 John S. Bergsma 3. THE MYSTERYOFTHE MISSING ‘SONSOF AARON’ 65 Joseph Blenkinsopp 4. FROM EXILEAND RESTORATION TO EXILEAND RECONSTRUCTION 78 Tamara Cohn Eskenazi 5. JESHUA’S ‘HIGH PRIESTLY’ LINEAGE? A REASSESSMENTOF NEHEMIAH 12.10-11 94 Deirdre N. Fulton 6. ‘THEY SHALL COME REJOICINGTO ZION’ – OR DID THEY? THE SETTLEMENTOF YEHUDINTHE EARLY PERSIAN PERIOD 116 Lester L. Grabbe 7. WAS JERUSALEMA PERSIAN FORTRESS? 128 Lester L. Grabbe 8. ADMINISTRATIONOF ACHAEMENID PHOENICIA: A CASEFOR MANAGED AUTONOMY 138 Vadim S. Jigoulov vi Contents 9. THE RELATIONBETWEEN HISTORYAND THOUGHT: REFLECTIONSONTHE SUBTITLEOF PETERACKROYD’s EXILE AND RESTORATION 152 Reinhard G. Kratz 10. EXILEAND RESTORATIONIN LIGHTOF RECENT ARCHAEOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHIC STUDIES 166 Eric M. Meyers 11. GOINGBEYONDTHE MYTHOFTHE EMPTY LAND: A REASSESSMENTOFTHE EARLY PERSIAN PERIOD 174 Jill A. Middlemas 12. REBUILDING JERUSALEM: ZECHARIAH’S VISIONWITHIN VISIONS 195 Kenneth A. 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