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Book: A History of Biblical Israel

Chapter: 7. From Nebuchadnezzar II to Xerxes I: Mizpah, Samaria, and Jerusalem’s First “Second Temple”

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22638

Blurb:

The integration of the last Levantine kingdoms and the transition from Neo-Babylonian to Persian rule foster the rise of new identities based on ancestry rather than on loyalty to a local ruler. In this framework, the various attempts to set up Jerusalem’s first ‘Second Temple’ appear as rearguard actions of little significance.

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