A Time of Change (2007 Levin), edited volume

A Time of Change (2007) is a volume edited by Yigal Levin.

Abstract

"This volume includes ten new studies, most of which were originally presented at the 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, held in Jerusalem in 2005. The studies all deal with the changes that occurred in the Land of Israel during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, from the 6th through the 4th centuries BCE. For convenience, the studies are divided into three categories: archaeological, epigraphic and historical, though many of them are actually more interdisciplinary. Most of them deal with either the province of Judah, Idumea or the interaction between the two, although a couple of them examine other parts of the country as well. A major focus of several of the papers is different aspects of the newly published "Makkedah ostraca" and their meaning ... A Time of Change examines the changes that occurred in the Land of Israel during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, from the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE. A major focus of several of the papers is the examination of different aspects of the newly published 'Makkedah ostraca' and their meaning. By collecting this research in a single volume it is possible for the reader to obtain an overview of the situation during these periods in question, which in turn enables comparison with preceding and subsequent periods. For clarity, the studies are divided into three categories: archaeological, epigraphic and historical, though many of them operate on a more interdisciplinary level. "--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London [England]: T&T Clark, 2007 (Library of Second Temple Studies, 65).

Contents

• Archaeological evidence of links between the Aegean world and the land of israel in the Persian period / Einat Ambar-Armon and Amos Kloner

• Settlement dynamics and demographic fluctuations in Judah from the late Iron Age to the Hellenistic period and the archaeology of Persian-period Yehud / Avraham Faust

• Settlement patterns in Persian-period Yehud / Diana Edelman

• Tell es-Sâfi/Gath during the Persian period / Rona S. Avissar, Joe Uziel, and Aren M. Maeir

• Hellenism in the land of Israel from the fifth to the second centuries BCE in light of Semitic epigraphy / Hanan Eshel

• Makkedah and the storehouse in the Idumean ostraca / Bazalel Porten, and Ada Yardeni

• Two Aramaic ostraca from Mareshah / Esther Eshel

• Form xeno-philia to -phobia: Jewish encounters with the other / Lisbeth S. Fried

• The population of Persian-period Idumea according to the ostraca: a study of ethnic boundaries ad ethnogenesis / Ian Stern

• The southern frontier of Yehud and the creation of Idumea / Yigal Levin

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