11. Sanctuaries, Priest-Dynasts and the Seleukid Empire

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Contributors XI
5. Preface XV
6. Introduction 1
7. I. The Chronological Frame, Politics and Identity
8. 1. The Ptolemaic Period: A Dark Age in Jewish History? 19
9. 2. Numismatic Evidence and the Chronology of the Fifth Syrian War 31
10. 3. The Representation of the Victorious King 43
11. 4. Aramaic, Paleo-Hebrew and “Jewish” Scripts in the Ptolemaic Period 53
12. II. The History of Rural Settlement in Judea
13. 5. Judah in the Early Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Perspective 63
14. 6. Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods 81
15. 7. Coin Circulation in Judea during the Persian–Hellenistic Transition 103
16. 8. Political Trends as Reflected in the Material Culture 119
17. III. The Workings of Empires in Local and Comparative Perspectives
18. 9. The Harbor of Akko-Ptolemaïs: Dates and Functions 135
19. 10. The Achaemenid–Ptolemaic Transition 143
20. 11. Sanctuaries, Priest-Dynasts and the Seleukid Empire 161
21. 12. Gods in the Gray Zone 177
22. 13. Sacred and Secular Activities in the Egyptian Temple Precincts (temenē) in the 3rd Century BCE 187
23. 14. Searching for the Social Location of Literate Judean Elites in Early Hellenistic Times 199
24. IV. The Pentateuch: Early Greek Translations and Receptions
25. 15. The Idealization of Ptolemaic Kingship in the Legend of the Origins of the Septuagint 231
26. 16. The Production of Greek Books in Alexandrian Judaism 241
27. 17. The Septuagint: Translating and Adapting the Torah to the 3rd Century BCE 253
28. 18. Greek Historians on Jews and Judaism in the 3rd Century BCE 263
29. V. Biblical Texts in the 3rd Century BCE
30. 19. How to Identify a Ptolemaic Period Text in the Hebrew Bible 281
31. 20. No Prophetic Texts from the Hellenistic Period? 293
32. 21. The Social Setting and Purpose of Early Judean Apocalyptic Literature 341
33. 22. “To be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated” (Esther 7:4) 357
34. Index of Ancient Sources 375
35. Index of Geographical Names 384
36. Index of Subjects 387
37. Index of Modern Authors 391