An Empire Far and Wide: The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth and Jewish Scribes in the Late Persian Period

by Mark A. Leuchter

The Persian period (539-332 BCE) sits somewhat awkwardly within the study of Second Temple Judaism. Amidst a myriad of issues and debates, the approach to the Persian period is fundamentally complicated by the difficulty in labelling communities -- whether or not the communities in the province of Yehud, in Egypt, or in the Eastern Diaspora can even be called "Jewish," a label denoting a type of ethnic and religious symbiosis that some scholars are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197772749
• ISBN13: 9780197772744
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages