Political memory in and after the Persian Empire

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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 ...............................................................................................7
Persian Memories and the Programmatic Nature of Nabataean Funerary Architecture
Björn Anderson........................................................................................27
“I Overwhelmed the King of Elam”: Remembering Nebuchadnezzar I in Persian Babylonia
John P. Nielsen..........................................................................................53
Heroes and Sinners: Babylonian Kings in Cuneiform Historiography of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods
Geert De Breucker....................................................................................75
Facts, Propaganda, or History? Shaping Political Memory in the Nabonidus Chronicle 
Caroline Waerzeggers..............................................................................95
Petubastis IV in the Dakhla Oasis: New Evidence about an Early Rebellion against Persian Rule and Its Suppression in Political Memory
Olaf E. Kaper...........................................................................................125
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..................................................................................151
Memories of the Second Persian Period in Egypt
Henry P. Colburn ...................................................................................165
Political Memory in the Achaemenid Empire: The Integration of Egyptian Kingship into Persian Royal Display
Melanie Wasmuth ..................................................................................203
Conflicting Loyalties: King and Context in the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar
Seth A. Bledsoe.......................................................................................239
Achaemenid Religious Policy after the Seleucid Decline: Case Studies in Political Memory and Near Eastern Dynastic Representation
Benedikt Eckhardt..................................................................................269
Memory and Images of Achaemenid Persia in the Roman Empire
Aleksandr V. Makhlaiuk........................................................................299
Yahweh’s Anointed: Cyrus, Deuteronomy’s Law of the King, and Yehudite Identity
Ian Douglas Wilson................................................................................325
The Testament of Darius (DNa/DNb) and Constructions of Kings and Kingship in 1–2 Chronicles
Christine Mitchell ..................................................................................363
No King in Judah? Mass Divorce in Judah and in Athens
Lisbeth S. Fried.......................................................................................381
References to Zoroastrian Beliefs and Principles or an Image of the Achaemenid Court in Nehemiah 2:1–10?
Kiyan Foroutan.......................................................................................403
From Remembering to Expecting the “Messiah”: Achaemenid Kingship as (Re)formulating Apocalyptic Expectations of David
Jason M. Silverman ................................................................................419
Coming to Terms with the Persian Empire: Some Concluding Remarks and Responses
R. J. van der Spek....................................................................................447
Index of Ancient Sources..............................................................................479
Index of Modern Authors.............................................................................490