Ethnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56–66

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Part 1 Negotiating Identity: Diversity within the Biblical Evidence
6. Judean Identity and Ecumenicity: The Political Theology of the Priestly Document 1
7. Torah and Identity in the Persian Period 27
8. The Absent Presence: Cultural Responses to Persian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean 39
9. Ethnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56–66 67
10. Trito-Isaiah’s Intra- and Internationalization: Identity Markers in the Second Temple Period 105
11. From Ezekiel to Ezra–Nehemiah: Shifts of Group Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology 127
12. Israel’s Identity and the Threat of the Nations in the Persian Period 153
13. The Rite of Separation of the Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah 173
14. The Holy Seed: The Significance of Endogamous Boundaries and Their Transgression in Ezra 9–10 189
15. What Do Priests and Kings Have in Common? Priestly and Royal Succession Narratives in the Achaemenid Era 225
16. Part 2 Negotiating Identity: Cultural, Historical, Social, and Environmental Factors
17. Yahwistic Names in Light of Late Babylonian Onomastics 245
18. “Judean”: A Special Status in Neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia? 267
19. Some Observations on the Traditions Surrounding “Israel in Egypt” 279
20. Judean Identity in Elephantine: Everyday Life according to the Ostraca 365
21. The Interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic Literature 375
22. Yehudite Identity in Elephantine 403
23. Judean Ambassadors and the Making of Jewish Identity: The Case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah 421
24. Negotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Coinages of Persian-Period Palestine as an Allegory 445
25. Judaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham 461
26. The Controversy about Judean versus Israelite Identity and the Persian Government: A New Interpretation of the Bagoses Story (Jewish Antiquities XI.297–301) 483
27. Surviving in an Imperial Context: Foreign Military Service and Judean Identity 505
28. ʾel-mĕdînâ ûmĕdînâ kiktābāh: Scribes and Scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid Transeuphratene 529
29. Jewish Identity in the Eastern Diaspora in Light of the Book of Tobit 545
30. The Identity of the Idumeans Based on the Archaeological Evidence from Maresha 563
31. Indexes 575