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The Authority and Authorization of Torah in the Persian Period (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology)

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Was once the Jewish Torah codified from its more than a few sources on the behest of the Persian imperial government? That is the question the present book explores by engaging within the much acclaimed theory of Imperial Authorization proposed by Peter Frei. This is a politico-historical analysis of the bilateral relationship between the Achaemenid imperial government and the province of Judah so as to assess the historical plausibility of Ezra s mission recorded within the Hebrew Bible. This study turns to legislative documents from Achaemenid-era Egypt and Asia Minor so as to appraise Frei s theory, whilst taking a diachronic and synchronic approach to the socio-political history of Judah under the Persian rule. It examines the administrative value of the Jerusalem Temple and the geopolitical significance of Judah from the point of view of the imperial government. The literary-critical evaluation of the biblical record in conjunction with the insight garnered from the historical circumstances reveals how imperial politics intervened within the emergence of Torah.

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