Times of Transition

Sylvie Honigman is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: Study in the Narrative of the “Letter of Aristeas.” Christophe Nihan is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and History of Ancient Israel at the University of Lausanne. He is the coeditor of Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism. Oded Lipschits is Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Among his many publications is the recent Ramat Raḥel IV: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture, also published by Eisenbrauns.

• AbbreviationsContributorsPrefaceIntroductionSylvie HonigmanI.The Chronological Frame, Politics and Identity1.The Ptolemaic Period: A Dark Age in Jewish History?Lester L Grabbe2.Numismatic Evidence and the Chronology of the Fifth Syrian WarCatharine C. Lorber3.The Representation of the Victorious King: Comments on a Dedication of a Statueof Ptolemy IV in Jaffa (SEG 20.467 = CIIP 3.2172)Stefan Pfeiffer4.Aramaic, Paleo-Hebrew and “Jewish” Scripts in the Ptolemaic PeriodDavid S. VanderhooftII.The History of Rural Settlement in Judea5.Judah in the Early Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological PerspectiveNitsan Shalom, Oded Lipschits, Noa Shatil and Yuval Gadot6.Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic PeriodsYosef Garfinkel7.Coin Circulation in Judea during the Persian–Hellenistic Transition: A View from the Elah ValleyYoav Farhi8.Political Trends as Reflected in the Material Culture: A New Look at the Transition between the Persian and Early Hellenistic PeriodsIgor Kreimerman and Débora SandhausIII.The Workings of Empires in Local and Comparative Perspectives9.The Harbor of Akko-Ptolemaïs: Dates and FunctionsGil Gambash10.The Achaemenid–Ptolemaic Transition: The View from Southern PhoeniciaAndrea M. Berlin and Sharon C. Herbert11. Sanctuaries, Priest-Dynasts and the Seleukid EmpireBoris Chrubasik12. Gods in the Gray Zone: A Political History of Egyptian Temples from Artaxerxes IIIto the End of the Argeadai (342–ca. 305 BCE)Damien Agut-Labordère13. Sacred and Secular Activities in the Egyptian Temple Precincts (temenē) in the 3rd Century BCEGilles Gorre14. Searching for the Social Location of Literate Judean Elites in Early Hellenistic Times: A Non-Linear History of the Temple and Royal Administrations in JudeaSylvie HonigmanIV. The Pentateuch: Early Greek Translations and Receptions15. The Idealization of Ptolemaic Kingship in the Legend of the Origins of the SeptuagintTimothy H. Lim16. The Production of Greek Books in Alexandrian JudaismBenjamin G. Wright17. The Septuagint: Translating and Adapting the Torah to the 3rd Century BCEMartin Rösel18. Greek Historians on Jews and Judaism in the 3rd Century BCEReinhard G. KratzV. Biblical Texts in the 3rd Century BCE19. How to Identify a Ptolemaic Period Text in the Hebrew BibleKonrad Schmid20. No Prophetic Texts from the Hellenistic Period? Methodological, Philologicaland Historical Observations on the Writing of Prophecy in Early Hellenistic JudeaHervé Gonzalez21. The Social Setting and Purpose of Early Judean Apocalyptic Literature: Between Resistance Literature and Literate HermeneuticsSylvie Honigman 22. “To be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated” (Esther 7:4):Historicity and Fictionality of Anti-Jewish Pogrom Stories before the Maccabean CrisisManfred OemingIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Geographical Names Index of SubjectsIndex of Modern Authors

“With this volume in hand, the late-Persian and early-Hellenistic period can no longer be called a dark age. The authors and editors are to be congratulated with this observation.”—Jan Willem van Henten Bibliotheca Orientalis