Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. The History of the Fourth Century: A View from the Center
6. The Achaemenid Empire in the Fourth Century b.c.e.: A Period of Decline? 11
7. Part 2 Judah in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
8. The Settlement Archaeology of the Province of Judah: A Case Study 33
9. Administration in Fourth-Century b.c.e. Judah in Light of Epigraphy and Numismatics 53
10. Yehud Stamp Impressions in the Fourth Century b.c.e.: A Time of Administrative Consolidation? 75
11. “And They Did Not Care to Speak Yehudit”: On Linguistic Change in Judah during the Late Persian Era 95
12. Archaeology and Archaiologias: Relating Excavations to History in Fourth-Century b.c.e. Palestine 125
13. Part 3 Edom and Samaria: Judah’s Neighbors in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
14. Idumea in the Late Persian Period (Fourth Century b.c.e.) 139
15. The Onomasticon of Mareshah in the Persian and Hellenistic Periods 145
16. The Dating of the First Phase of the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim in Light of the Archaeological Evidence 157
17. Do the Earliest Samaritan Inscriptions Already Indicate a Parting of the Ways? 213
18. The Governors of Samaria in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries b.c.e. 223
19. Part 4 Biblical Literature in the Late Persian and Hellenistic Periods
20. The Late Persian Formation of the Torah: Observations on Deuteronomy 34 237
21. The Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Torah in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries b.c.e. 253
22. The Canonical Alignment of the Book of Joshua 287
23. Nehemiah and Sanballat: The Enemy Without or Within? 305
24. A New Model for the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah 333
25. Who Knew What? The Construction of the Monarchic Past in Chronicles and Implications for the Intellectual Setting of Chronicles 349
26. “Those Doing the Work for the Service in the House of the Lord” 1 Chronicles 23:6–24:31 and the Sociohistorical Context of the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem in the Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period 361
27. The Development of Jewish Sectarianism from Nehemiah to the Hasidim 385
28. Index of Authors 405
29. Index of Scripture 410
30. Index of Sites 421