End of History and the Last King

This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction. In the book, David Janzen reads Ezra-Nehemiah in dialogue with the Achaemenids'' Old Persian inscriptions, as well as with other media the dynasty used, such as reliefs, seals, coins, a...