Judah Between East and West

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull.He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology.A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it? Oded Lipschits is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. Publications include The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: The History of Judah under Babylonian Rule (2005) and (with D. Vanderhooft) Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Stamp Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah (forthcoming).

List of Contributors Abbreviations Preface Programme of the Conference 1. Introduction - Lester L. Grabbe 2. Judaic National Identity - James K. Aitken 3. Geographical Lists in Ezra and Nehemiah in the Light of Archaeology: Persian or Hellenistic? - Israel Finkelstein 4. Hyparchs - Oikonomoi, and Mafiosi: The Governance of Judah in the Ptolemaic Period - Lester L. Grabbe 5. King and Temple in 2 Maccabees: The Case for Continuity - Sylvie Honigman 6. Further Thoughts on Josephus' Report of Alexander's Campaign to Palestine (AJ XI 304-347) - Aryeh Kasher 7. The Introduction of the Greek Language and Culture in the Third Century BCE, according to the Archaeological Evidence in Idumaea - Amos Kloner 8. Jerusalem between Two Periods of Greatness: The Size and Status of the City in the Babylonian, Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods - Oded Lipschits 9. The Samaritans' Transition from the Persian to the Greek Period - Menachem Mor 10. The Alphabet that Never Was: A Possible Egyptian Influence on the Near East - John Ray 11. Empires and Farmers - Eveline Van Der Steen 12. Early Enochic Tradition and the Restoration of Humanity: The Function and Significance of 1 Enoch 10 - Loren Stuckenbruck 13. 'Hellenistic Foundations' in Palestine - Oren Tal 14. Will the Greek Texts Stand Up, Please - Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer