2' Jews in the Persian Empire

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2. Jews in the Persian Empire

• BOT535 Postexilic History Literature

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Introduction

• Problem with Sources
• Under Persian Control
• Ezra - Nehemiah primary sources
• Archaeological Sources . . . .

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Jews in Palestine in the Persian Empire

• Restoration and the Rebuilding of the Temple
  (538-515 BCE)
• Temple Rebuilding Ezra 1-3 (Hebrew)
• Temple Rebuilding Ezra 5.1-6.18 (Aramaic)
• Temple Rebuilding Haggai Zechariah 1-8
• Temple Rebuilding Opposition Narrative Ezra 4

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Jews in Palestine in the Persian Empire

• Leadership
• Ezra
• Nehemiah
• Sanballat and Samarian Opposition

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Jews in Persia in the Persian Empire

• Babylon During the Persian Empire
• Slavery
• Law
• Language
• Land
• The Temple
• Economic Life
• Religion

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Jews in Persia in the Persian Empire

• Ethnic Minorities
• Jews in Babylon
• Northern Kingdom
• Jews from Judah
• Nippur
• Jewish Aristocracy
• Jewish Self-government?
• Internal Life of Babylonian Jewry

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Jews in Persia in the Persian Empire

• Religion in the Babylonian Captivity
• Temple? Ezek 20.39???
• Theophanic Names
• Starting from these premises, let us examine
  Jewish nomenclature in the Murashu records. In
  these documents every free person, as a rule, is
  described by his personal name and that of his
  father. Almost a third of the patronymics of
  persons with familiar biblical names or names
  compounded with Yahweh are compounds that
  acknowledge Babylonian gods. Yet these fathers,
  who bear idolatrous names, almost without
  exception invoke Yahweh when naming their sons.
• Bickerman, Elias J., "Babylonian Captivity." in
  The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume One
  Introduction The Persian Period. W. D. Davies
  and Louis Finkelstein, ed. Cambridge Cambridge
  University Press, 1984, 355-358

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Jews in Egypt in the Persian Empire

• Egypt in the Persian Empire
• Persian Rulers and the History of Egypt
• Cambyses and Egypt
• Darius I and Egypt
• Artaxerxes I and Egypt
• Darius II and Egypt
• Persian Administration in Egypt
• Persian Economics in Egypt

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Jews in Egypt in the Persian Empire

• Jews in Elephantine
• History of Jewish Settlements in Egypt
• The Establishment of the Colony at Elephantine
• Garrisons at Elephantine-Syene
• Religion
• Temple
• Sabbath
• Passover

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Jews in Egypt in the Persian Empire

• Summarizing Achaemenid Judah
• The Role of Temples the civic-temple community
• Temple of Zerubbabel
• K. Hoglund
• Ruralization
• Commercialization
• Militarization
• Ethnic Collectivization