Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire
2015
First Published
454
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Part of Series
An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period Various disciplines that deal with Achaemenid rule offer starkly different assessments of Persian kingship. While Assyriologists treat Cyrus' heirs as legitimate successors of the Babylonian kings, biblical scholars often speak of a kingless era in which the priesthood took over the function of the Davidic monarch. Egyptologists see their land as uniquely independently minded despite conquests, while Hellenistic scholarship tends to evaluate the interface between Hellenism and native traditions without reference to the previous two centuries of Persian rule. This volume brings together in dialogue a broad array of scholars with the goal of seeking a broader context for assessing Persian kingship through the anthropological concept of political memory. Features
