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Empire, Power and Indigenous Elites: A Case Study of the Nehemiah Memoir

By Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004289887, 9789004289888
ISSN
1384-2161
Google Books ID
qIC9BwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1717073 bytes)
Series
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 169
Pages
xii+327\341
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-12-28 20:41:04
Религиоведение;Религиоведение иудаизма;История иуд

Description

Ancient Near Eastern empires, including Assyria, Babylon and Persia, frequently permitted local rulers to remain in power. The roles of the indigenous elites reflected in the Nehemiah Memoir can be compared to those encountered elsewhere. Nehemiah was an imperial appointee, likely of a military/administrative background, whose mission was to establish a birta in Jerusalem, thereby limiting the power of local elites. As a loyal servant of Persia, Nehemiah brought to his mission a certain amount of ethnic/cultic colouring seen in certain aspects of his activities in Jerusalem, in particular in his use of Mosaic authority (but not of specific Mosaic laws). Nehemiah appealed to ancient Jerusalemite traditions in order to eliminate opposition to him from powerful local elite networks.

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