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Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam
  • Edited by: Gad Barnea and Reinhard G. Kratz
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024

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The Achaemenid period (550–330 BCE) is rightly seen as one of the most formative periods in Judaism. It is the period in which large portions of the Bible were edited and redacted and others were authored—yet no dedicated interdisciplinary study has been undertaken to present a consistent picture of this decisive time period.
This book is dedicated to the study of the touchpoints between Yahwistic communities throughout the Achaemenid empire and the Iranian attributes of the empire that ruled over them for about two centuries. Its approach is fundamentally interdisciplinary. It brings together scholars of Achaemenid history, literature and religion, Iranian linguistics, historians of the Ancient Near East, archeologists, biblical scholars and Semiticists. The goal is to better understand the interchange of ideas, expressions and concepts as well as the experience of historical events between Yahwists and the empire that ruled over them for over two centuries. The book will open up a holisitic perspective on this important era to scholars of a wide variety of fields in the study of Judaism in the Ancient Near East.

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Gad Barnea, University of Haifa, Israel; Reinhard G. Kratz, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.


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Gad Barnea
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Diana V. Edelman
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Margaretha Folmer
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Benedikt Hensel
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Tawny L. Holm
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Itamar Kislev
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Ingo Kottsieper
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Reinhard G. Kratz
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Oded Lipschits
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James D. Moore
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Antonio Panaino
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Laurie E. Pearce
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Bezalel Porten
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Michael Shenkar
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Konrad Schmid
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Stefan Schorch
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Jason M. Silverman
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Karel van der Toorn
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 4, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111018638
Hardcover published on:
November 4, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111016092
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
14
Main content:
590
Illustrations:
13
Coloured Illustrations:
16
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