The Cultic Fire in the Priestly Source

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Table of Contents xiii
4. P. Berlin 13464, Yahwism and Achaemenid Zoroastrianism at Elephantine 1
5. Yhwh Shomron and Yhwh Elohim in the Achaemenid Province of Samaria 35
6. The Linguistic Milieu of Elephantine Aramaic: Persian Loanwords and Examples of Egyptian Code-switching 81
7. Reconsidering Yahwism in Persian Period Idumea in Light of the Current Material Findings 151
8. Samarians in the Egyptian Diaspora 197
9. The Cultic Fire in the Priestly Source 225
10. From יהה צבאת to יהו מרא שמיא : Aspects of religious development on Elephantine 245
11. Where to put “Biblical” Yahwism in Achaemenid Times? 267
12. “Those who live in these ruins in the land of Israel” (Ezekiel 33:24): Some Thoughts on Living in the Shadow of Ruins in Persian-period Judah 279
13. Administering Cult at Elephantine 305
14. Cyrus as Mašiaḥ or Χριστός, and the Implications of this Title on the Theology of Power in Late Antiquity 337
15. Through a Babylonian looking glass: a perspective on foreign wives 351
16. Yahu and Its Cognates in Personal Names: The Problem of Yama 373
17. The ‘Eternal Fire’, Achaemenid Zoroastrianism and the Origin of the Fire Temples 379
18. The End of History and the Ends of History: Assessing the Political-Theological Status of the Achaemenid Empire in Persian Period Judaism 391
19. The Torah as a Closed Cluster Text: Conceptualizing the Transmission of the Pentateuch in the Persian Period 413
20. Yahwism in the Achaemenid Imperial Religious Field: Using Bourdieu as a theorist of religious change in the Persian Empire 433
21. Persian Imperialism and the Religious Imagination 459
22. Issues Pertaining to the Israelite-Judeans in Pre-Islamic Mesopotamia and the Land of Israel as well as Their Encounters with Iranians 469
23. Abbreviations 577
24. Index 581