Religion in the Achaemenid Persian Empire: Emerging Judaisms and Trends

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	Cover
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	Titel
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	Table of Contents
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	Abbreviations
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	Diana V. Edelman: Introduction
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	Part I: Trends in Emerging Judaisms
		James Anderson: Creating Dialectical Tensions: Religious Developments in Persian-Period Yehud Reflected in Biblical Texts
		Philip R. Davies: Monotheism, Empire, and the Cult(s) of Yehud in the Persian Period
		Russell Hobson: Were Persian-Period ‘Israelites’ Bound by Ethnicity or Religious Affiliation? The Case of the Southern Transjordan
		Philippe Guillaume: Non-violent Re-readings of Israel’s Foundational Traditions in the Persian Period (the Calendar System in P)
		Lowell Handy: Josiah as Religious Peg for Persian-Period Jews and Judaism
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	Part II: Other Religious Trends in the Persian Empire
		Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley: Continuity between Assyrian and Persian Policies toward the Cults of Their Subjects
		Jason M. Silverman: Was There an Achaemenid ‘Theology’ of Kingship? The Intersections of Mythology, Religion, and Imperial Religious Policy
		Yannick Muller: Religion, Empire and Mutilation: A Cross-Religious Perspective on Achaemenid Mutilation Practices
		Diana V. Edelman: Iconography on Double-Shekel Sidonian Coinage in the Persian Period: Is It a God or a King in the Chariot?
		Mark Christian: Whose Rites and Whose Wrongs? Religious Contributions of Contingents within the Persian Navy
		Damien Agut-Labordère: Beyond the Persian Tolerance Policy: Great Kings and Egyptian Gods during the Achaemenid Period
		Jared Krebsbach: Achaemenid Persian Patronage of Egyptian Cults and Religious Institutions in the Twenty-seventh Dynasty: A Study of Political Acumen in the Ancient World
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	List of Contributors
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	Index of Sources
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	Index of Modern Authors