By Gary N. Knoppers, Lester L. Grabbe, Deirdre Fulton
This quantity had its origins in a consultation offered to the Society of Biblical Literature in Washington in 2006 with a view to research the legacy of Peter Ackroyd to the sector of religious study. Ackroyd's paintings stretched over a variety of themes inside of bible study, particularly examine of prophetic literature and paintings on exile and recovery. This quantity rather focuses upon his paintings at the latter. while the current paintings is based upon the papers given on the consultation it is also a number of essays solicited hence which additional serve to attract the contributions jointly right into a becoming tribute to a pioneer in his field.
The contributions take account of Ackroyd's method of the subject matter of exile and recovery, focusing mostly upon the learn of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronciles. As a short flavour, Bob Becking examines the epigraphic facts about the combined marriage obstacle Ezra-Nehemiah. Joe Blenkinsopp seeks to discover the ‘Sons of Aaron' earlier than the fifth Century in a desirable essay focusing which alternatives up the paintings of R.H. Kennett over a century in the past. one of the different unusual members are John Bergsma, Eric Myers and Jill Middlemass.
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12; Dusˇ ek 2007: 214–26) – is to be construed as common West Semitic. 22739) – contains a reference to the Edomite god Qaus/Qoˆs. A comparable dispersal is found among the names of the buyers. 14; Dusˇ ek 2007: 130–49). 26 It is impossible to draw conclusions on the basis of this material as to the multi-ethnicity of Samaria and its surroundings in the fourth century BCE. 27 Among them are about fifty inscriptions in lapidary Aramaic script, which could have been written in the Persian period. In these inscriptions, Edomite names are absent, however.
As already noted, many have proposed that the Achaemenids practised a laissez-faire style of governance in which local dynasts were allowed significant freedom in routine economic and local political matters. In this reconstruction, the Phoenician city-states were obliged to pay a variety of taxes, submit tribute and gifts, and contribute to the support of the Persian-led armed forces, but were otherwise allowed some autonomy over their own local affairs. Recently, a minority of scholars have deviated from the standard view by arguing that the Persian emperors actively controlled some major aspects of local political administration and have built far-reaching theories on this position.
Tucker (eds), The Hebrew Bible and Its Modern Interpreters (Philadelphia: Fortress): 297–323. 1987 Studies in the Religious Tradition of the Old Testament (London: SCM). 1988a ‘Chronicles–Ezra–Nehemiah: The Concept of Unity’, ZAW 100:189–201. 1988b ‘Problems in the Handling of Biblical and Related Sources in the Achaemenid Period’, in Ame´lie Kuhrt and Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (eds), Method and Theory: Proceedings of the London 1985 Achaemenid History Workshop (Achaemenid History, 3; Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten): 33–54.