Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series,9030-7870 ;711
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
edited by Philip R. Davies
Sociology and the Second Temple / Philip R. Davies -- Temple and society in Achaemenid Judah / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- The Achaemenid context / Kenneth Hoglund -- The politics of Ezra : sociological indicators of postexilic Judaean society / Daniel L. Smith -- Reconstructing history from the Book of Ezra / Lester L. Grabbe -- Textual strategies and ideology in the Second Temple period / Robert P. Carroll -- The Temple in Persian period prophetic texts / David L. Petersen -- Nehemiah 5 : by way of a response to Hoglund and Smith / John M. Halligan -- On models and texts : a response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen / Peter Ross Bedford -- Empire, Temple and community--but no bourgeoisie! : a response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen / Richard A. Horsley -- Texts and the world--an unbridgeable gap? : a response to Carroll, Hoglund and Smith / David Jobling