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Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Treatise Against the Jews -- The Manuscripts of the Treatise -- Index of the Chapter Headings in the Treatise -- Sigla Used in the Critical Edition of the Treatise -- Edition and Translation of the Treatise -- Back Matter -- Appendix A: List of Books and Articles Published by Rifaat Ebied and Lionel R. Wickham -- Appendix B: Facsimiles of Illustrations from the Syriac Manuscripts Which Contain the Treatise -- Bibliography -- Biblical References -- Index.

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