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In: Semitica viva Band 56
In: Testi del vicino oriente antico
In: 6, Letteratura ebraica e aramaica 3
In: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 85
In: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 327
In: Studies in medieval and reformation traditions 167
In: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 54
In: Remnant stones: the Jewish cemeteries of Suriname 1
In: Mittelalterliche Stadtrechnungen im historischen Prozess: die älteste Duisburger Überlieferung (1348-1449) Band 1
In: Biblical and Judaic studies from the University of California, San Diego volume 10
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
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: China Vol. 15
In: Handbook of Christianity in China Vol. 1
In: Handbuch der Orientalistik
In: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten Bd. 19