The Cambridge History of Judaism: 1. Introduction, the Persian Period (1984 Davies, Finkelstein), edited volume

The Cambridge History of Judaism: 4. The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period (1984) is a volume edited by William D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein.

Editions and translations

Published in Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents

The geography of Palestine and the Levant in relation to its history / Denis Baly -- Numismatics / Uriel Rappaport -- Calendars and chronology / Elias J. Bickerman -- The Persian empire and the political and social history of Palestine in the Persian period / Ephraim Stern -- The archaeology of Persian Palestine / Ephraim Stern -- Hebrew and Aramaic in the Persian period / Joseph Naveh and Jonas C. Greenfield -- The Jewish community in Palestine in the Persian period / Peter Ackroyd -- Prophecy and Psalms in the Persian period / Gunther Wanke -- Wisdom literature in the Persian period / Hartmut Gese -- Jewish religious life in the Persian period / Morton Smith -- Persian life in the Achemenid age / Mary Boyce -- Iranian influence on Judaism : first century B.C.E. to second century C.E. / Shaud Shaked -- The Diaspora. Babylonia in the Persian age / M. Dandamayev ; The Babylonian captivity / Elias J. Bickerman ; Egypt, Persian satrapy / Edda Bresciani ; The Jews in Egypt / Bezalel Porten

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