Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire

by Jason Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers

Various disciplines that deal with Achaemenid rule offer starkly different assessments of Persian kingship. While Assyriologists treat Cyrus's heirs as legitimate successors of the Babylonian kings, biblical scholars often speak of a "kingless era" in which the priesthood took over the function of the Davidic monarch. Egyptologists see their land as uniquely independently minded despite conquests, while Hellenistic scholarship tends to evaluate the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884140903
• ISBN13: 9780884140900
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"