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Assessing biblical and classical sources for the reconstruction of Persian influence, history, and culture / edited by Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley.

Contributor(s): Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Anne [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Classica et orientalia: Bd. 10.Publisher: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 216 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783447102445; 3447102446Subject(s): Iran -- History -- To 640 -- Historiography -- Congresses | Historiography -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Bible. Old Testament -- History of contemporary events -- CongressesDDC classification: 935/.70072 LOC classification: DS271.5 | .A87 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Herodotus on the character of Persian imperialism (7.5-11) / Thomas Harrison -- The use and abuse of Herodotus by biblical scholars / Lester L. Grabbe -- The justice of Darius: reflections on the Achaemenid empire as a rule-bound environment / Christopher Tuplin -- Indigenous elites in Yehud: the inscriptional evidence from Xanthus, Tayma and Dedan and the Nehemiah memoir / Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley -- What is 'Persian' about the book of Genesis? / Diana Edelman -- Admiring others: Xenophon and Persians / Lynette Mitchell -- From fact to fiction: Persian history and the book of Esther / Maria Brosius -- Judahite prophecy and the Achaemenids / Philip R. Davies.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DS271.5 .A87 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903381305

Papers from a conference held June 24-26, 2010 at Trinity College in Dublin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Herodotus on the character of Persian imperialism (7.5-11) / Thomas Harrison -- The use and abuse of Herodotus by biblical scholars / Lester L. Grabbe -- The justice of Darius: reflections on the Achaemenid empire as a rule-bound environment / Christopher Tuplin -- Indigenous elites in Yehud: the inscriptional evidence from Xanthus, Tayma and Dedan and the Nehemiah memoir / Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley -- What is 'Persian' about the book of Genesis? / Diana Edelman -- Admiring others: Xenophon and Persians / Lynette Mitchell -- From fact to fiction: Persian history and the book of Esther / Maria Brosius -- Judahite prophecy and the Achaemenids / Philip R. Davies.

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