Forts or agricultural estates? Persian period settlement in the territories of the former kingdom of Judah

Faust, Avraham

doi:10.1080/00310328.2017.1405233

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“…Although the exact nature of this fort is unclear, the erection of the public building signifies that this area regained administrative and/or military importance in accordance with the Persian imperial interest. 54 This change in the region coincides with the broader shift in the material culture of Yehud in this period. According to Lipschits, "the main change in material culture occurred later in the Persian period, probably during the late 5th or even the early 4th century BCE, when a fundamental modification in the form, style, paleography, and orthography occurred, probably a result of the growing importance of the Southern Levant for the Persian Empire, when it lost its hegemony over Egypt. "…”

Section: The Geopolitical State Of the Hebron Area In The Persian Periodmentioning

confidence: 69%

The Scout Narrative (Numbers 13) as a Territorial Claim in the Persian Period

Jeon

2020

Journal of Biblical Literature

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This essay endeavors to provide the possible sociohistorical contexts of the nonpriestly layers of the scout narrative in Num 13-14. I suggest that the scout motif in these chapters is a literary invention that belongs to a later compositional stage during the Persian period. The scouts' mission took them as far as the Valley of Eshcol, which marks the southern border of Yehud, probably created by the demographic division in the fifth century BCE. The scout narrative can be read as an explanation of the situation at that time, that is, to explain why Judah had lost the land south of the valley. The passages relating to Caleb and Hebron were added even later to the scout story probably as a territorial claim for the Hebron area in the time when the Persian Empire was making the border adjustment in the late fifth or early fourth century BCE.

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Section: The Geopolitical State Of the Hebron Area In The Persian Periodmentioning

confidence: 69%