The Priest and the Great King
Fried, Lisbeth S.
The Priest and the Great King Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire. [electronic resource]: - Warsaw : Eisenbrauns, Incorporated July 2004. - xiii + 248 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. - Biblical and Judaic Studies from the Univ. of California, San Diego Ser. . - Biblical and Judaic Studies from the Univ. of California, San Diego Ser. .
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Annotation 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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Available electronically via the Internet.
9781575060903 1575060906 (Trade Cloth)
Temples. Religion And Politics. Iran Iran Religion Religion Political Science History
322/.1/0935
The Priest and the Great King Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire. [electronic resource]: - Warsaw : Eisenbrauns, Incorporated July 2004. - xiii + 248 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. - Biblical and Judaic Studies from the Univ. of California, San Diego Ser. . - Biblical and Judaic Studies from the Univ. of California, San Diego Ser. .
Available for distribution in: USA, AUSTRALIA.
Annotation 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.
Trade Eisenbrauns, Incorporated.
Available electronically via the Internet.
9781575060903 1575060906 (Trade Cloth)
Temples. Religion And Politics. Iran Iran Religion Religion Political Science History
322/.1/0935