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?

• 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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