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Contact Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean

Niesiołowski-Spano, Łukasz & Kacper Ziemba (eds.). 2024. Contact zones in the Eastern Mediterranean: Judeans and their neighbours in intercultural contexts: places, middlemen, transcultural contacts. –– Sixth to second century BCE. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Two contributions of this open-access volume investigate aspects of the Achaemenid Persian Empire:

  • Giulia Francesca Grassi: Religious Interactions in Achaemenid Elephantine and Syene as Reflected in the Aramaic Documents
  • Jason M. Silverman: Prolegomena to an Analysis of the Persian “Royal Road” as a Social Network in the Southern Levant