TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fried,Lisbeth S.
TI  - The Priest and the Great King: Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire
T2  - Biblical and Judaic Studies from the Univ. of California, San Diego Ser
SN  - 9781575060903
U1  - 322/.1/0935 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Warsaw : 
PB  - Eisenbrauns, Incorporated
KW  - Temples
KW  - Religion And Politics
KW  - Iran
KW  - Religion
KW  - Political Science
KW  - History
N1  - Available for distribution in: USA, AUSTRALIA; Trade; Eisenbrauns, Incorporated
N2  - 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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