Zadok's Heirs

• Introduction ; I: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF HIGH PRIESTHOOD ; 1. High Priesthood According to the Priestly Writer ; II: HIGH PRIESTHOOD TO THE END OF EXILE ; 2. High Priesthood in the Deuteronomistic History ; 3. Mysterious Melchizedek ; 4. Ezekiel: A Vision of Hierocracy? ; Part II: Summary ; III: HIGH PRIESTHOOD IN THE PERSIAN PERIOD ; 5. High-Priestly Power in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 ; 6. Ezra and Nehemiah: The High Priesthood in Fifth-Century Judah ; 7. The Elephantine Papyri ; 8. High Priesthood in the Books of Chronicles ; 9. After the Canon: the Later Persian Period ; Part III: Summary ; IV: HIGH PRIESTHOOD FROM ALEXANDER TO POMPEY ; 10. The Hidden Years: High Priesthood under the Ptolemies ; 11. The Maccabean Conquest: Jonathan and Simon the Maccabees ; 12. The Hasmonean Dynasty: John Hyrcanus and his Successors ; Part IV: Summary ; Conclusion

Deborah Rooke offers detailed and carefully ordered investigations of a wide range of primary source materials ... Her comprehension of this vast array of writings, her familiarity with the secondary literature about them and the erudition she so often displays make this a truly remarkable book, not least for the amount and quality of the information it has to offer ... This is a book which no student of the Jewish priesthood can afford to ignore.