The Achaemenid Policy of Reproduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Part 1 Introduction
6. Cultivating Curiosity: Methods and Models for Understanding Ancient Economies 3
7. Part 2. Economic Indications from the Hebrew Bible
8. The “Successful, Wise, Worthy Wife” of Proverbs 31:10–31 as a Source for Reconstructing Aspects of Thought and Economy in the Late Persian / Early Hellenistic Period 27
9. More Than Friends? The Economic Relationship between Huram and Solomon Reconsidered 51
10. Agrarian Economy through City-Elites’ Eyes: Reflections of Late Persian Period Yehud Economy in the Genealogies of Chronicles 77
11. Ancient Comparisons, Modern Models, and Ezra–Nehemiah: Triangulating the Sources for Insights on the Economy of Persian Period Yehud 103
12. Part 3. Economic Indications from Other Literary Sources
13. פְרוּ וּרְבוּ and the Seventh Year: Complementary Strategies for the Economic Recovery of Depopulated Yehud 123
14. Exploitation of Depopulated Land in Achaemenid Judah 151
15. The Achaemenid Policy of Reproduction 165
16. The Economy and Administration of Rural Idumea at the End of the Persian Period 175
17. Part 4. Economic Indications from Archaeology
18. Forces of Decline and Regeneration: A Socioeconomic Account of the Iron Age II Negev Desert 207
19. The Rural Economy of Judah during the Persian Period and the Settlement History of the District System 237
20. Index of Authors 265
21. Index of Scripture 270
22. Index of Other Ancient Sources 274