Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Sylvie Honigman
I. The Chronological Frame, Politics and Identity
1. The Ptolemaic Period: A Dark Age in Jewish History?
Lester L Grabbe
2. Numismatic Evidence and the Chronology of the Fifth Syrian War
Catharine C. Lorber
3. The Representation of the Victorious King: Comments on a Dedication of a Statue
of Ptolemy IV in Jaffa (SEG 20.467 = CIIP 3.2172)
Stefan Pfeiffer
4. Aramaic, Paleo-Hebrew and “Jewish” Scripts in the Ptolemaic Period
David S. Vanderhooft
II. The History of Rural Settlement in Judea
5. Judah in the Early Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Perspective
Nitsan Shalom, Oded Lipschits, Noa Shatil and Yuval Gadot
6. Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
Yosef Garfinkel
7. Coin Circulation in Judea during the Persian–Hellenistic Transition: A View from the Elah Valley
Yoav Farhi
8. Political Trends as Reflected in the Material Culture: A New Look at the Transition between the Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods
Igor Kreimerman and Débora Sandhaus
III. The Workings of Empires in Local and Comparative Perspectives
9. The Harbor of Akko-Ptolemaïs: Dates and Functions
Gil Gambash
10. The Achaemenid–Ptolemaic Transition: The View from Southern Phoenicia
Andrea M. Berlin and Sharon C. Herbert
11. Sanctuaries, Priest-Dynasts and the Seleukid Empire
Boris Chrubasik
12. Gods in the Gray Zone: A Political History of Egyptian Temples from Artaxerxes III
to the End of the Argeadai (342–ca. 305 BCE)
Damien Agut-Labordère
13. Sacred and Secular Activities in the Egyptian Temple Precincts (temenē) in the 3rd Century BCE
Gilles Gorre
14. Searching for the Social Location of Literate Judean Elites in Early Hellenistic Times: A Non-Linear History of the Temple and Royal Administrations in Judea
Sylvie Honigman
IV. The Pentateuch: Early Greek Translations and Receptions
15. The Idealization of Ptolemaic Kingship in the Legend of the Origins of the Septuagint
Timothy H. Lim
16. The Production of Greek Books in Alexandrian Judaism
Benjamin G. Wright
17. The Septuagint: Translating and Adapting the Torah to the 3rd Century BCE
Martin Rösel
18. Greek Historians on Jews and Judaism in the 3rd Century BCE
Reinhard G. Kratz
V. Biblical Texts in the 3rd Century BCE
19. How to Identify a Ptolemaic Period Text in the Hebrew Bible
Konrad Schmid
20. No Prophetic Texts from the Hellenistic Period? Methodological, Philological
and Historical Observations on the Writing of Prophecy in Early Hellenistic Judea
Hervé Gonzalez
21. The Social Setting and Purpose of Early Judean Apocalyptic Literature: Between Resistance Literature and Literate Hermeneutics
Sylvie Honigman
22. “To be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated” (Esther 7:4):
Historicity and Fictionality of Anti-Jewish Pogrom Stories before the Maccabean Crisis
Manfred Oeming
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Geographical Names Index of Subjects
Index of Modern Authors