Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION
LESTER L. GRABBE and GARY N. KNOPPERS

II. ARTICLES

BOB BECKING On the Identity of the ‘Foreign' Women in Ezra 9-10

JOHN S. BERGSMA The Persian Period as Penitential Era: The "Exegetical Logic" of Daniel 9.1-27

JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP The Mystery of the Missing "Sons of Aaron"

TAMARA COHN ESKENAZI From Exile and Restoration to Exile and Reconstruction

DEIRDRE N. FULTON Jeshua's "High Priestly" Lineage? A Reassessment of Nehemiah 12:10-11

LESTER L. GRABBE "They Shall Come Rejoicing to Zion"--or Did They? The Settlement of Yehud in the Early Persian Period

LESTER L. GRABBE Was Jerusalem a Persian Fortress?

VADIM S. JIGOULOV Administration of Achaemenid Phoenicia: A Case for Managed Autonomy

REINHARD G. KRATZ The Relation between History and Thought: Reflections on the Subtitle of Peter Ackroyd's Exile and Restoration

ERIC MEYERS Exile and Restoration in Light of Recent Archaeology and Demographic Studies in Memory of Peter Ackroyd

JILL A. MIDDLEMAS Going beyond the Myth of the Empty Land: A Reassessment of the Early Persian Period

KENNETH A. RISTAU Rebuilding Jerusalem: Zechariah's Vision within Visions

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About the Author

Gary N. Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

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