Statement

The chapter treats two developments that may be linked: the coming of Persian rule in the 500s BCE and the emergence of the Bible as sacred scripture. For that reason much of it is a history of the Bible more than of the Jews in the Persian period.

References

1. p. 34

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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