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Peoples of an almighty god : competing religions in the ancient world
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- Creator
- Jonathan Goldstein
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- English
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- First edition
- New York : Doubleday, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 575 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0385423470, 9780385423472
- OCLC
- ocm45620827
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-512) and indexes.
- 1. Peoples of an Almighty God and the Israelite Example -- 2. The Babylonians as a People of an Almighty God -- 3. Peoples of a Nearly Almighty God: The Egyptians and the Zoroastrian Iranians -- 4. Jews and Babylonians, from the Reign of Ahaz to the Accession of Nabonidus (ca. 733-556 B.C.E.) -- 5. The Reign of Nabonidus and the Fall of the Kingdom of Babylon (556-539 B.C.E.) -- 6. Deutero-Isaiah's Reactions to the Career and Fall of Nabonidus and to the Policies of Cyrus -- 7. The Material History of the Babylonians and Jews from Cyrus to the Early Reign of Artaxerxes I (538-464 B.C.E.) except as Reflected by Daniel -- 8. Daniel 1-7 and Other Texts of the Babylonians and the Jews, 538-464 B.C.E. -- 9. The Jews and Babylonians from the Death of Xerxes I to the Eve of the Great Expedition of Alexander (465-334 B.C.E.) -- 10. The Career of Alexander the Great -- 11. How the Persians, Babylonians, and Jews Reacted to Alexander -- 12. Babylonians, Jews, and Iranians under the Successor Dynasties -- 13. The Reigns of Antiochus III and Seleucis IV -- 14. The Reigns of Antiochus IV and V -- 15. The Last Struggles of Judas Maccabaeus and Conclusion -- App. The Prophetic Zand -- Map 1. Palestine in the Hellenistic Period -- Map 2. Empire of Darius I -- Map 3. Alexander's Empire -- Map 4. Hellenistic States