Publisher's Synopsis
This volume includes ten new studies, most of which were originally presented at the 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, held in Jerusalem in 2005.
The studies all deal with the changes that occurred in theLand of Israel during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, from the 6th through the 4th centuries BCE.
The studies all deal with the changes that occurred in the
For convenience, the studies are divided into three categories: archaeological, epigraphic and historical, though many of them are actually more interdisciplinary. Most of them deal with either the