Jason M. Silverman is Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

This monograph is a stimulating read. It prompts its audience to re-examine their presuppositions and solutions learned in the classroom and to nuance and refine their understandings of how influence is a two-way process with benefits to be gained by both sides through adaptation. ... The monograph belongs in all university and research libraries.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Into the Woods: Judaean Engagements with the Early Persian EmpirePart I. 2. Second Isaiah3. Old Persian Creation TheologyPart II. 4. First Zechariah, the Temple, and the Great King5. The Phenomenology of Dreams and VisionsPart III6. The Great King, Local Elites, Priests, Temples, and Priests in the early Empire7. The Great King and Local Elites in Early Persian Discourse8. Exit, Pursued by a BearAppendix: Table of DatesBibliography

Jason M. Silverman is Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

This monograph is a stimulating read. It prompts its audience to re-examine their presuppositions and solutions learned in the classroom and to nuance and refine their understandings of how influence is a two-way process with benefits to be gained by both sides through adaptation. ... The monograph belongs in all university and research libraries.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Into the Woods: Judaean Engagements with the Early Persian EmpirePart I. 2. Second Isaiah3. Old Persian Creation TheologyPart II. 4. First Zechariah, the Temple, and the Great King5. The Phenomenology of Dreams and VisionsPart III6. The Great King, Local Elites, Priests, Temples, and Priests in the early Empire7. The Great King and Local Elites in Early Persian Discourse8. Exit, Pursued by a BearAppendix: Table of DatesBibliography

Jason M. Silverman is Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

This monograph is a stimulating read. It prompts its audience to re-examine their presuppositions and solutions learned in the classroom and to nuance and refine their understandings of how influence is a two-way process with benefits to be gained by both sides through adaptation. ... The monograph belongs in all university and research libraries.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Into the Woods: Judaean Engagements with the Early Persian EmpirePart I. 2. Second Isaiah3. Old Persian Creation TheologyPart II. 4. First Zechariah, the Temple, and the Great King5. The Phenomenology of Dreams and VisionsPart III6. The Great King, Local Elites, Priests, Temples, and Priests in the early Empire7. The Great King and Local Elites in Early Persian Discourse8. Exit, Pursued by a BearAppendix: Table of DatesBibliography