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Political memory in and after the Persian Empire / edited by Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers.

Contributor(s): Silverman, Jason M [editor.] | Waerzeggers, Caroline [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient Near East monographs: v. 13.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780884140887; 0884140881Subject(s): Achaemenid dynasty, 559 B.C.-330 B.C. -- Historiography | Iran -- Civilization -- To 640 -- Historiography | Iran -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 935/.05072 LOC classification: DS281 | .P65 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Assessing Persian kingship in the Near East: an introduction / Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers -- The end of the Lydian kingdom and the Lydians after Croesus / Eduard Rung -- Persian memories and the progmmatic nature of Nabataean funerary architecture / Björn Anderson -- "I overwhelmed the king of Elam": remembering Nebuchadnezzar I in Persian Babylonia / John P. Nielsen -- Heroes and sinners: Babylonian kings in cuneiform historiography of the Persian and Hellenistic periods / Geert De Breucker -- Facts, propaganda, or history? Shaping political memory in the Nabonidus chronicle / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Petubastis IV in the Dakhla oasis: new evidence about an early rebellion against Persian rule and its suppression in political memory / Olaf E. Kaper -- Udjahorresnet: the founder of the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir and his engagement as leading political person during the troubled years at the beginning of the twenty-seventh dynasty / Květa Smoláriková -- Memories of the second Persian period in Egypt / Henry P. Colburn -- Political memory in the Achaemenid empire: the integration of Egyptian kingship into Persian royal display / Melanie Wasmuth -- Conflicting loyalties: king and context in the Aramaic book of Ahiquar / Seth A. Bledsoe -- Achaemenid religious policy after the Seleucid decline: case studies in political memory and Near Eastern dynastic representation / Benedikt Eckhardt -- Memory and images of Achaemenid Persia in the Roman empire / Alesandr V. Makhlaiuk -- Yawheh's anointed: Cyrus, Deuteronomy's law of the king, and Yehudite identity / Ian Douglas Wilson -- The testament of Darius (DNa/DNb) and constructions of kings and kingship in 1-2 Chronicles / Christine Mitchell -- No king in Judah? Mass divorce in Judah and in Athens / Lisbeth S. Fried -- References to Zoroastrian beliefs and principles or an image of the Achaemenid court in Nehemiah 2:1-10? / Kiyan Foroutan -- From remembering to expecting the "messiah": Achaemenid kingship as (re)formulating apocalyptic expectations of David / Jason M. Silverman -- Coming to terms with the Persian empire: some concluding remarks and responses / R.J. van der Spek.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DS281 .P65 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903397335

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Assessing Persian kingship in the Near East: an introduction / Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers -- The end of the Lydian kingdom and the Lydians after Croesus / Eduard Rung -- Persian memories and the progmmatic nature of Nabataean funerary architecture / Björn Anderson -- "I overwhelmed the king of Elam": remembering Nebuchadnezzar I in Persian Babylonia / John P. Nielsen -- Heroes and sinners: Babylonian kings in cuneiform historiography of the Persian and Hellenistic periods / Geert De Breucker -- Facts, propaganda, or history? Shaping political memory in the Nabonidus chronicle / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Petubastis IV in the Dakhla oasis: new evidence about an early rebellion against Persian rule and its suppression in political memory / Olaf E. Kaper -- Udjahorresnet: the founder of the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir and his engagement as leading political person during the troubled years at the beginning of the twenty-seventh dynasty / Květa Smoláriková -- Memories of the second Persian period in Egypt / Henry P. Colburn -- Political memory in the Achaemenid empire: the integration of Egyptian kingship into Persian royal display / Melanie Wasmuth -- Conflicting loyalties: king and context in the Aramaic book of Ahiquar / Seth A. Bledsoe -- Achaemenid religious policy after the Seleucid decline: case studies in political memory and Near Eastern dynastic representation / Benedikt Eckhardt -- Memory and images of Achaemenid Persia in the Roman empire / Alesandr V. Makhlaiuk -- Yawheh's anointed: Cyrus, Deuteronomy's law of the king, and Yehudite identity / Ian Douglas Wilson -- The testament of Darius (DNa/DNb) and constructions of kings and kingship in 1-2 Chronicles / Christine Mitchell -- No king in Judah? Mass divorce in Judah and in Athens / Lisbeth S. Fried -- References to Zoroastrian beliefs and principles or an image of the Achaemenid court in Nehemiah 2:1-10? / Kiyan Foroutan -- From remembering to expecting the "messiah": Achaemenid kingship as (re)formulating apocalyptic expectations of David / Jason M. Silverman -- Coming to terms with the Persian empire: some concluding remarks and responses / R.J. van der Spek.

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