Format:
1 online resource (604 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783111018638
Series Statement:
Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Series v.548
Content:
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- P. Berlin 13464, Yahwism and Achaemenid Zoroastrianism at Elephantine -- Yhwh Shomron and Yhwh Elohim in the Achaemenid Province of Samaria -- The Linguistic Milieu of Elephantine Aramaic: Persian Loanwords and Examples of Egyptian Code-switching -- Reconsidering Yahwism in Persian Period Idumea in Light of the Current Material Findings -- Samarians in the Egyptian Diaspora -- The Cultic Fire in the Priestly Source -- From יהה צבאת to יהו מרא שמיא : Aspects of religious development on Elephantine -- Where to put "Biblical" Yahwism in Achaemenid Times? -- "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 -- Administering Cult at Elephantine -- Cyrus as Mašiaḥ or Χριστός, and the Implications of this Title on the Theology of Power in Late Antiquity -- Through a Babylonian looking glass: a perspective on foreign wives -- Yahu and Its Cognates in Personal Names: The Problem of Yama -- The 'Eternal Fire', Achaemenid Zoroastrianism and the Origin of the Fire Temples -- The End of History and the Ends of History: Assessing the Political-Theological Status of the Achaemenid Empire in Persian Period Judaism -- The Torah as a Closed Cluster Text: Conceptualizing the Transmission of the Pentateuch in the Persian Period -- Yahwism in the Achaemenid Imperial Religious Field: Using Bourdieu as a theorist of religious change in the Persian Empire -- Persian Imperialism and the Religious Imagination -- Issues Pertaining to the Israelite-Judeans in Pre-Islamic Mesopotamia and the Land of Israel as well as Their Encounters with Iranians -- Abbreviations -- Index.
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Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Author information:
Kratz, Reinhard Gregor 1957-
