Persepolis and Jerusalem

Dr. Jason M. Silverman recently completed his doctorate at Trinity College Dublin. He has edited two recent collections, A Land Like Your Own (Pickwick, 2010) and Text, Theology, and Trowel (Pickwick, 2011).

• Table of Figures and Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Prolegomena: Iran, the Apocalypses, and Influence; - Introit; - History of Iranian Influence; - Apocalyptic Studies; - Types of Influence and Transmission; I: The Iranian Sources: Religion and Royal Ideology; - Introduction; - Evidence from Classical Authors; - Religious Situation in Iran ; - Persian Archaeology and Royal Ideology; - Summary; II: The Achaemenid Context; - Babylonia; - Media and Iranian Lands; - Egypt; - Palestine; - Royal Road and Royal Mail Summary; - Excursus: Elam and Eastern Iran in Ansan; - Several Theological and Sociological Affinities; III: The Media of Influence: Orality, Literacy, and Interaction; - Importance of Orality and its Role in Influence; -Importance of Interiorization for Apocalyptic; -Implications for Investigation of Influence; IVa: Textual Analyses, Biblical Literature; - Ezekiel 37:1-14; - Ezekiel 38-39; - Daniel 2; - Excursus: On the Watchers; IVb: Textual Analyses, Enochic Literature; - Book of Watchers (1-36); - Book of Parables/Similitudes (37-71); - Birth of Noah Fragment (106-107); - Conclusion; V: An Apocalyptic Hermeneutic; - Introit: The Proposal; - Hermeneutics: Re-Interpretation and Application of Traditions; - The Apocalyptic Hermeneutic's Blueprint; - Reconstructing the Apocalyptic Hermeneutic (with an Eye towards Iran); - Conclusions; Metalegomena; Appendix I: Primary Sources; Appendix II: Glossary of Iranian Terms; Appendix III: Annotated Definitions; Bibliography.

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