VI. The Intellectual World of Judaism in the Pre-Hellenistic Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Overview IX
4. I. The Theological Politics of Deutero-Isaiah 1
5. II. Deutero-Isaiah and the Creator God: Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Marduk 15
6. III. Judaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham 30
7. IV. Bethel in the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period 48
8. V. Temple and Society in Achaemenid Judah 61
9. VI. The Intellectual World of Judaism in the Pre-Hellenistic Period 84
10. VII. Was the Pentateuch the constitution of the Jewish ethnos in the Persian period? 101
11. VIII.Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes in Ezra 7:11–26 119
12. IX. The Nehemiah Autobiographical Memoir 132
13. X. Ideology and Utopia in the book of Chronicles 144
14. XI. The social context of the “Outsider Woman” in Proverbs 1–9 159
15. XII. Social Roles of Prophets in Early Achaemenid Judah 178
16. XIII. The sectarian element in early Judaism 192
17. XIV. Jewish Sectarianism from Ezra to the Hasidim 207
18. XV. A Case of Benign Imperial Neglect and its Consequences: An Exercize in Virtual History 221
19. Abbreviations 227
20. Bibliography 228
21. Author Index 247
22. Biblical Index 251