Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire (Ancient Near East Monographs) - Softcover

Jason M. Silverman; Caroline Waerzeggers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884140881 ISBN 13: 9780884140887

Publisher: SBL Press, 2015

Synopsis

An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period

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 interface between Hellenism and native traditions without reference to the previous two centuries of Persian rule. This volume brings together in dialogue a broad array of scholars with the goal of seeking a broader context for assessing Persian kingship through the anthropological concept of political memory.

Features

• Articles present the results of an international symposium held in Leiden, the Netherlands, 2014
• More than twenty illustrations
• Seventeen articles, an introduction, and a summary response

About this title

About the Author:

Jason M. Silverman

is a Post-doctoral Researcher at University of Helsink. He is the editor of Opening Heaven's Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Contexts and Reception (Gorgias) and the author of Persepolis and Jerusalem: Iranian Influence on the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic (T&T Clark).

Caroline Waerzeggers

is Associate Professor at Leiden University. She is the author of Marduk-remanni: Local Networks and Imperial Politics in Achaemenid Babylonia (Peeters) and The Ezida Temple of Borsippa: Priesthood, Cult, Archives (Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten).

About this edition

• Publisher: SBL Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0884140881
• ISBN 13: 9780884140887
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454