Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd

239 Pages·2009·1.18 MB·English

by  Gary N. Knoppers

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EXILE AND RESTORATION REVISITED
Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter
R. Ackroyd
EDITED BY
GARY N. KNOPPERS
AND LESTER L. GRABBE,
WITH DEIRDRE N. FULTON
Copyright # Gary N. Knoppers, Lester L. Grabbe, Deirdre N. Fulton and
contributors 2009
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CONTENTS
LISTOFABBREVIATIONS vii
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS xi
INTRODUCTION 1
Lester L. Grabbe and Gary N. Knoppers
1. ONTHE IDENTITYOFTHE ‘FOREIGN’ WOMENIN EZRA 9–10 31
Bob Becking
2. THE PERSIAN PERIODAS PENITENTIAL ERA:
THE ‘EXEGETICAL LOGIC’ OF DANIEL 9.1-27 50
John S. Bergsma
3. THE MYSTERYOFTHE MISSING ‘SONSOF AARON’ 65
Joseph Blenkinsopp
4. FROM EXILEAND RESTORATION TO EXILEAND RECONSTRUCTION 78
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
5. JESHUA’S ‘HIGH PRIESTLY’ LINEAGE?
A REASSESSMENTOF NEHEMIAH 12.10-11 94
Deirdre N. Fulton
6. ‘THEY SHALL COME REJOICINGTO ZION’ – OR DID THEY?
THE SETTLEMENTOF YEHUDINTHE EARLY PERSIAN PERIOD 116
Lester L. Grabbe
7. WAS JERUSALEMA PERSIAN FORTRESS? 128
Lester L. Grabbe
8. ADMINISTRATIONOF ACHAEMENID PHOENICIA:
A CASEFOR MANAGED AUTONOMY 138
Vadim S. Jigoulov
vi Contents
9. THE RELATIONBETWEEN HISTORYAND THOUGHT:
REFLECTIONSONTHE SUBTITLEOF PETERACKROYD’s EXILE
AND RESTORATION 152
Reinhard G. Kratz
10. EXILEAND RESTORATIONIN LIGHTOF RECENT ARCHAEOLOGY
AND DEMOGRAPHIC STUDIES 166
Eric M. Meyers
11. GOINGBEYONDTHE MYTHOFTHE EMPTY LAND:
A REASSESSMENTOFTHE EARLY PERSIAN PERIOD 174
Jill A. Middlemas
12. REBUILDING JERUSALEM: ZECHARIAH’S VISIONWITHIN VISIONS 195
Kenneth A. Ristau
INDEXOFREFERENCES 214
INDEXOFAUTHORS 221
ABBREVIATIONS
AAR American Academy of Religion
AB Anchor Bible
ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library
ADPV Abhandlungen des deutschen Pala¨stina-Vereins
AJBA Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology
AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature
AMI Archa¨ologische Mitteilungen aus Iran
ANET J.B.Pritchard(ed.),AncientNearEasternTextsRelating
to the Old Testament (3rd edn; Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1969)
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
AP A. Cowley (ed. and trans.), Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth
Century B.C (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923)
ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research
ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen
Testaments
AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBB Bonner biblische Beitra¨ge
BDB F.Brown,S.R.DriverandC.A.Briggs(eds),AHebrew
and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1904)
BEATAJ Beitra¨ge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des
antiken Judentums
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium
BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament
BThSt Biblisch-theologische Studien
BWANT Beitra¨ge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen
Testament
BZAW Beihefte Zeitschrift fu¨r die alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
viii Abbreviations
CHANE Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
CoS W. W. Hallo (ed.), The Context of Scripture (3 vols;
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997–2002)
CT E.A.Budge,CuneiformTextsfromBabylonianTabletsin
the British Museum (London: Harrison and Sons, 1896)
DCH D. J. A. Clines (ed.), Dictionary of Classical Hebrew
(Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993–)
DJD Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
DNWSI J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling (eds), Dictionary of the
North-West Semitic Inscriptions (2 vols; Leiden: E. J.
Brill, 1995)
EN Ezra-Nehemiah
EPRO Etudes pre´liminaires aux religions orientales dans
l’empire romain
ESHM European Seminar in Historical Methodology
EvTh Evangelische Theologie
ExpT Expository Times
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
FNT Filologia neotestamentaria
FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und
Neuen Testaments
GTA Go¨ttinger theologischer Arbeiten
HeyJ Heythrop Journal
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual
ICC International Critical Commentary
IEJ Israel Exploration Journal
Int Interpretation
JANES Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JNSL Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
JSJSup Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian,
Hellenistic, and Roman Periods: Supplement Series
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
JSOTSup JournalfortheStudyoftheOldTestament:Supplement
Series
JSP Judea and Samaria Publications
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
KAI H. Donner and W. Ro¨llig (eds), Kanaana¨ische und
arama¨ische Inschriften (2nd edn; Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz Verlag, 1966–69)
KAT Kommentar zum Alten Testament
LSTS Library of Second Temple Studies
Abbreviations ix
LTQ Lexington Theological Quarterly
LXX Septuagint
MGI Y. Magen, H. Misgav and L. Tsfania, Mount Gerizim
Excavations, I: The Aramaic, Hebrew and Samaritan
Inscriptions (JSP, 2; Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities
Authority, 2004).
MT Masoretic Text
NCB New Century Bible
NEB New English Bible
NJPS Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation
according to the Traditional Hebrew Text
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis
OLP Orientalia lovaniensia periodica
OTG Old Testament Guides
OTL Old Testament Library
OTS Old Testament Studies
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
RevQ Revue de Qumran
RlA E. Ebeling et al. (eds), Reallexikon der Assyriologie
(Berlin: de Gruyter, 1928(cid:1))
RSV Revised Standard Version
SBL Society of Biblical Literature
SBLABS Society of Biblical Literature Archaeology and Biblical
Studies
SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series
SBLMS Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series
SBLSP Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers
SBLSymS Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series
SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien
SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SO Symbolae osloenses
SP Sacra Pagina
TA Tel Aviv
TADAE Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni (eds), Textbook of
Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt: 1–4 (Hebrew
University, Department of the History of the Jewish
People, Texts and Studies for Students; Jerusalem:
Hebrew University, 1986–99).
TBC Torch Bible Commentaries
TDOT G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren (eds), Theological
Dictionary of the Old Testament (trans. J. T. Willis, G.
W. Bromiley and D. E. Green; 8 vols; Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 1974(cid:1))