Judaism in Persia's shadow : a social and historical approach
- Title
- Judaism in Persia's shadow : a social and historical approach / Jon L. Berquist.
- Published by
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1995]
- copyright ©1995
- Author
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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.
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-268) and index.