Research Catalog

Title

Judaism in Persia's shadow : a social and historical approach / Jon L. Berquist.

Author

Berquist, Jon L.

Publication

• Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1995]
• copyright ©1995

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Details

Description

vi, 282 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C
• 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
• Achaemenid
• 11.42 history of Old Testament times
• Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism)
• Juden
• Achaemeniden
• Joden
• Babylonische ballingschap (vc0586-vc0521)
• Zoroastrianism > Relations > Judaism
• Judaism > Relations > Zoroastrianism
• Palästina
• Juden

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-268) and index.

Contents

Perspectives on the postexilic period -- Setting the stage : exile and diaspora -- Conquering Babylonia and the West : Cyrus (539-530 B.C.E.) -- Stability and stagnation : Cambyses (530-522 B.C.E.) -- Enforcing imperial rule : Darius (522-486 B.C.E.) -- The emergence of pluralism : Xerxes (486-465 B.C.E.) -- Increasing western autonomy : Artaxerxes I (465-423 B.C.E.) -- Stability and pluralism : the late Persian period (423-333 B.C.E.) -- Governors and the law : political and social maintenance -- The priesthood's capture of religion : religious maintenance -- Sages and wisdom : intellectual maintenance and social symbolism -- Apocalyptic visions : rhetoric of violent opposition -- Songs of joy and pain : popular images of a different world -- Wisdom as dissent : undermining society's assumptions -- Stories of the larger world : imagining other lives -- The effects of the Persian period.

ISBN

• 0800628454
• 9780800628451

LCCN

95020934

OCLC

• ocm32970265
• 32970265
• SCSB-2075118

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library