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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silverman, Jason M., 1980-

Waerzeggers, Caroline (C. A. H.), 1975-

Series:

Ancient Near East monographs ; no. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--Civilization--Historiography--To 640.

Iran.

Iran--Historiography--History.

Civilization--Historiography.

Historiography.

Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C--Historiography.

Achaemenid dynasty.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 501 pages).

Place of Publication:

Atlana SBL Press

Atlanta : SBL Press, 2015.

Contents:

Assessing Persian kingship in the Near East: an introduction / Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers

1. THE END OF THE LYDIAN KINGDOM AND THE LYDIANS AFTER CROESUS / Eduard Rung

2. PERSIAN MEMORIES AND THE PROGRAMMATIC NATURE OF NABATAEAN FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE / Bjørn Anderson

3. "I OVERWHELMED THE KING OF ELAM": REMEMBERING NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN PERSIAN BABYLONIA / John P. Nielsen

4. HEROES AND SINNERS: BABYLONIAN KINGS IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE PERSIAN AND HELLENISTIC PERIODS / Geert De Breucker

5. FACTS, PROPAGANDA, OR HISTORY? SHAPING POLITICAL MEMORY IN THE NABONIDUS CHRONICLE / Caroline Waerzeggers

6. PETUBASTIS IV IN THE DAKHLA OASIS: NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT AN EARLY REBELLION AGAINST PERSIAN RULE AND ITS SUPPRESSION IN POLITICAL MEMORY / Olaf E. Kaper

7. 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 27TH DYNASTY / Květa Smolørikovø

8. MEMORIES OF THE SECOND PERSIAN PERIOD IN EGYPT / Henry P. Colburn

9. POLITICAL MEMORY IN THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE: THE INTEGRATION OF EGYPTIAN KINGSHIP INTO PERSIAN ROYAL DISPLAY / Melanie Wasmuth

10. CONFLICTING LOYALTIES: KING AND CONTEXT IN THE ARAMAIC BOOK OF AHIQAR / Seth A. Bledsoe

11. ACHAEMENID RELIGIOUS POLICY AFTER THE SELEUCID DECLINE: CASE STUDIES IN POLITICAL MEMORY AND NEAR EASTERN DYNASTIC REPRESENTATION / Benedikt Eckhardt

12. MEMORY AND IMAGES OF ACHAEMENID PERSIA IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE / Alesandr V. Makhlaiuk

13. YAHWEH'S ANOINTED: CYRUS, DEUTERONOMY'S LAW OF THE KING, AND YEHUDITE IDENTITY / Ian Douglas Wilson

14. THE TESTAMENT OF DARIUS (DNA/DNB) AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF KINGS AND KINGSHIP IN 1-2 CHRONICLES / Christine Mitchell

15. NO KING IN JUDAH? MASS DIVORCE IN JUDAH AND ATHENS / Lisbeth S. Fried

16. REFERENCES TO ZOROASTRIAN BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES OR AN IMAGE OF THE ACHAEMENID COURT IN NEHEMIAH 2:1-10? / Kiyan Foroutan

17. FROM REMEMBERING TO EXPECTING THE "MESSIAH": ACHAEMENID KINGSHIP AS (RE)FORMULATING APOCALYPTIC EXPECTATIONS OF DAVID / Jason M. Silverman

18. COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PERSIAN EMPIRE: SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS AND RESPONSES / R.J. van der Spek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884140894

088414089X

9780884140887

0884140881

9780884140900

0884140903

OCLC:

934768833

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access