Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth-Second Centuries BCE

Diana V. Edelman is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. Ehud Ben Zvi is Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Ehud Ben Zvi Chapter 2: Memory and Political Thought in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah Ehud Ben Zvi Chapter 3: The Use of Memories about Judahs Past Leadership as Propaganda in Yehud James Bos Chapter 4: Leaders and Desert as the Liminal Space of Leadership Kare Berge Chapter 5: Israel's King as Primus inter Pares: The Democratic Reconceptualization of Kingship in Deut 17:14-20 Reinhard Muller Chapter 6: The Kingdom of God in Samuel Geoffrey Parsons Miller Chapter 7: Judges, Samuel, and the Rise of Monarchy in Yehudite Social Memory Ian Douglas Wilson Chapter 8: What is the Price for Quietude? Re-Imagining King Solomon Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher Chapter 9: Reconsidering Kingship in Ezekiel Christophe Nihan Chapter 10: At the Hands of Foreign Kings: Divine Endorsement of Foreign Rulers in the Hebrew Bible Thomas Bolin Chapter 11: How Esther and Other Texts Imagine and Interact with the Persian Empire Beate Ego Chapter 12: Models of Local Political Leadership in the Nehemiah Memoir Anne Fitzpatrick Chapter 13: The Three Constitutions and the Development of Greek Political Thought in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE: Widening the Context of Political Discourse amongst Constituents of the Persian Empire Lynette Mitchell Chapter 14: I Samuel 8 and Greek Constitutional Discussion Wolfgang Oswald Chapter 15: Rejecting Greek-Style, Semi-Divine Military Imperial Leaders like Alexander the Great as a Legitimate Form of Political Leadership in Judges 13-16 Diana V. Edelman Chapter 16: Judith Maccabee? On Leadership, Resistance, and the Great Deeds of Little People~ Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter Chapter 17: Leadership and Authority in the Apocalyptic Writings Lorenze Di'Tommaso