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Persia And Torah »

Authors: James W. Watts
ISBN-13: 9781589830158, ISBN-10: 1589830156
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
	Persian Imperial Authorization: A Summary	5
	Was the Pentateuch the Civic and Religious Constitution of the Jewish Ethnos in the Persian Period?	41
	"You Shall Appoint Judges": Ezra's Mission and the Rescript of Artaxerxes	63
	The Law of Moses in the Ezra Tradition: More Virtual Than Real?	91
	An Achaemenid Imperial Authorization of Torah in Yehud?	115
	The So-Called "Codification" of Egyptian Law under Darius I	135
	"Persian Imperial Authorization": Some Question Marks	161
	Bibliography	183
	Index of Ancient Sources	215
	Index of Modern Authors	223