Part 1 Negotiating Identity: Diversity within the Biblical EvidenceJudean Identity and Ecumenicity: The Political Theology of the Priestly Document Konrad SchmidTorah and Identity in the Persian Period Joachim SchaperThe Absent Presence: Cultural Responses to Persian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean Anselm C. HagedornEthnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56–66 Christophe NihanTrito-Isaiah’s Intra- and Internationalization: Identity Markers in the Second Temple Period Jill MiddlemasFrom Ezekiel to Ezra–Nehemiah: Shifts of Group Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology Dalit Rom-ShiloniIsrael’s Identity and the Threat of the Nations in the Persian Period Jakob WöhrleThe Rite of Separation of the Foreign Wives in Ezra–Nehemiah Yonina DorThe Holy Seed: The Significance of Endogamous Boundaries and Their Transgression in Ezra 9–10 Katherine SouthwoodWhat Do Priests and Kings Have in Common? Priestly and Royal Succession Narratives in the Achaemenid Era Deirdre N. FultonPart 2: Negotiating Identity: Cultural, Historical, Social, and Environmental FactorsYahwistic Names in Light of Late Babylonian Onomastics Paul-Alain Beaulieu“Judean”: A Special Status in Neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia? Laurie E. PearceSome Observations on the Traditions Surrounding “Israel in Egypt” Donald RedfordJudean Identity in Elephantine: Everyday Life according to the Ostraca André LemaireThe Interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic Literature Joachim Friedrich QuackYehudite Identity in Elephantine Bob BeckingJudean Ambassadors and the Making of Jewish Identity: The Case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah Reinhard G. KratzNegotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Coinages of Persian-Period Palestine as an Allegory Oren TalJudaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham Joseph BlenkinsoppThe Controversy about Judean versus Israelite Identity and the Persian Government: A New Interpretation of the Bagoses Story (Jewish Antiquities XI.297–301) Rainer AlbertzSurviving in an Imperial Context: Foreign Military Service and Judean Identity Jacob L. Wright’el-medînâ ûmedînâ kiktabah: Scribes and Scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid Transeuphratene David S. VanderhooftJewish Identity in the Eastern Diaspora in Light of the Book of Tobit Manfred OemingThe Identity of the Idumeans Based on the Archaeological Evidence from Maresha Amos KlonerIndexesIndex of AuthorsIndex of Scripture