Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Trinity College Dublin, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-286) and indexes.
Prolegomena -- The Iranian sources : religion and royal ideology -- The Achaemenid context -- The media of influence : orality, literacy, and cultural interaction -- Textual analyses : biblical literature -- Textual analyses : Enichic literature -- An apocalyptic hermeneutic -- Metalegomena