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"Lisbeth S. Fried's study investigates the impact of Achaemenid rule on the political power of local priesthoods during the 6th-4th centuries B.C.E. Scholars typically assume that, as long as tribute was sent to Susa,the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, subject peoples remained autonomous. Fried's work challenges this assumption. She examines the inscriptions, coins, temple archives, and literary texts from Babylon, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Judah and concludes that there was no local autonomy. The only people with power in the Empire were Persians and their appointees. This was true for Judah as well. The High Priest had no real power; there was no theocracy. The wars that periodically engulfed the Levant in the fourth century temporarily pulled the ruling governors and satraps away from Judah, and during these times, the Judaean priesthood may have capitalized on the brief absence of Persian officials to mint coins, but theyachieved their longed-for independence only much later, under the Maccabees."--BOOK JACKET
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Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
The Problem 2
The Theory of Self-Governance 2
The Theory of Persian Imperial Authorization 3
The Model of Bureaucratic Empires 4
Methodology 6
Chapter 2. Temple-Palace Relations in Babylonia 8
Sources and Methodological Limitations 8
Temple Personnel 9
Temple-Palace Relations under Nabonidus and Cyrus 20
The Resources of the Temple and Their Allocation 35
Conclusion 47
Chapter 3. Temple-Palace Relations in Egypt 49
The Pharaoh 50
The Temple 54
The Impact of Achaemenid Rule 63
The Jewish Garrison at Elephantine 92
Conclusion 106
Chapter 4. Temple-Palace Relations in Asia Minor 108
Darius's Letter to Gadatas 108
Border Dispute between Miletus and Myus 119
The Donation of Droaphernes 129
A Decree of Mylasa against the Opponents of Mausolus 137
The Trilingual Inscription of Xanthus 140
Conclusion 154
Chapter 5. Temple-Palace Relations in Yehud 156
A Model of Achaemenid Rule 156
Sources and Problems for the Study of Judah 157
The Restoration of the Temple of Yhwh in Jerusalem 158
Cyrus the Messiah and a Divine Quid Pro Quo 177
The Political Organization of Persian Period Yehud 183
Nehemiah's Mission and the Ensuing Political Struggle 193
Ezra's Mission 212
Yoúanan the Priest 227
Alexander 231
Yaddua, the High Priest of the Jews 232
Conclusion 233
Appendix 234
Kings of Ancient Mesopotamia 234
Egyptian Pharaohs 235
Bibliography 237
Indexes
Index of Authors 259
Index of Scripture 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Iran Politics and government, Iran History To 640, Temples Middle East History To 1500, Religion and politics Middle East History To 1500
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