The priest and the great king : temple-palace relations in the Persian Empire

The Resource The priest and the great king : temple-palace relations in the Persian Empire
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The priest and the great king : temple-palace relations in the Persian Empire
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temple-palace relations in the Persian Empire
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Lisbeth S. Fried
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eng
Summary
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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E7B
Dewey number
322/.1/0935
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maps
Index
index present
Language note
Some text in Ancient Greek and Aramaic
LC call number
DS275
LC item number
.F67 2004eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
  • indexes
Series statement
Biblical and Judaic studies from the University of California, San Diego
Series volume
v. 10

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