Second Temple Studies (1991 Davies), edited volume

Second Temple Studies (1991) is a volume edited by Philip R. Davies.

Editions and translations

Published in Sheffield (JSOT, 1991).

Table of contents

• Sociology and the Second Temple (Philip R. Davies)
• Temple and society in Achaemenid Judah (Joseph Blenkinsopp)
• The politics of Ezra : sociological indicators of postexilic Judaean society (Daniel L. Smith)
• Reconstructing history from the Book of Ezra (Lester L. Grabbe)
• Textual strategies and ideology in the Second Temple period (Robert P. Carroll
• The Temple in Persian period prophetic texts (David L. Petersen)
• Nehemiah 5: by way of a response to Hoglund and Smith (John M. Halligan)
• On models and texts : a response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen (Peter Ross Bedford)
• Empire, temple and community--but no bourgeoisie! : a response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen (Richard A. Horsley)
• Texts and the world--an unbridgeable gap? : a response to Carroll, Hoglund and Smith (David Jobling)