Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS V
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
4. ABBREVIATIONS IX
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. GROUP IDENTITIES IN JEREMIAH: IS IT THE PERSIAN PERIOD CONFLICT?” 11
7. EZRA 1–6 AS IDEALIZED PAST 47
8. ANCESTOR IDEOLOGIES AND THE TERRITORIALITY OF THE DEAD IN GENESIS 61
9. GOD RHETORIC: RECONCEPTUALIZING YHWH SEBAOT AS YHWH ELOHIM IN THE HEBREW BIBLE 81
10. THE BOOK OF ESTHER: A PERSIAN STORY IN GREEK STYLE 109
11. NAHUM 1: PROPHET, SENET, AND DIVINATION 129
12. VERBS OF MOTION IN BIBLICAL HEBREW: LEXICAL SHIFTS AND SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE 161
13. PARALLELISM AND NOUN GROUPS IN PROPHETIC POETRY FROM THE PERSIAN ERA 199
14. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BOOK OF SAMUEL IN THE PERSIAN PERIOD AND BEYOND? 237
15. WHAT IS ‘LATE BIBLICAL HEBREW’? 253
16. THE COMMUNICATIVE MESSAGE OF SOME LINGUISTIC CHOICES 269
17. AUTHOR INDEX 291
18. REFERENCES INDEX 299