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An empire far and wide : the Achaemenid dynastic myth and Jewish scribes in the late Persian period / Mark Leuchter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leuchter, Mark, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achaemenid dynasty, 559 B.C.-330 B.C.
- Achaemenid dynasty.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Rabbinical literature--Yehud (Persian province)--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.
- Jews.
- Jews--Identity.
- Mythology, Middle Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- The Persian period (539-332 BCE) sits somewhat awkwardly within the study of Second Temple Judaism. The approach to the Persian period is complicated by the difficulty in labelling communities - whether or not the communities in the province of Yehud, in Egypt, or in the Eastern Diaspora can even be called "Jewish," a label denoting a type of ethnic and religious symbiosis that some scholars are hesitant to identify any time before the mid-2nd century BCE. Using recent tools to examine scribal methods, Leuchter takes a definitive approach. An Empire Far and Wide focuses on a careful selection of literary test cases to better understand how Jewish scribes in Persian Yehud interacted with a feature of Persian imperialism that has not received adequate attention: the dynastic mythology of the Achaemenid rulers and the way it shaped emerging Jewish identity in the Persian period.
- Contents:
- Cover
- An Empire Far and Wide
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth
- 2. The Priestly Scribes of Elephantine and Jerusalem in the Fifth Century BCE
- 3. Accommodating Empire: The Mythologizing of Ezra's Mission
- 4. Negotiating Empire: The Levites and the Book of the Twelve
- 5. Repudiating Empire: The Shemihazah/Asael Narrative (1 Enoch 6-11)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Scripture Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 13, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-777277-3
- 0-19-777275-7
- OCLC:
- 1451104823
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