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

The Cambridge History of Judaism: 1. Introduction, the Persian Period (1984) is a volume edited by William D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein.

Editions

Published in Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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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