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The priest and the great king : temple-palace relations in the Persian Empire /
Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful 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 auto...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winona Lake, Ind. :
Eisenbrauns,
2004.
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| Colección: | Biblical and Judaic studies ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful 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, and this was true for Judah as well. The Judean priesthood achieved its longed-for independence only much later, under the Maccabees. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : map. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781575065502 1575065509 |