Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Negotiating Identity: Diversity within the Biblical Evidence -- Judean Identity and Ecumenicity: The Political Theology of the Priestly Document -- Torah and Identity in the Persian Period -- The Absent Presence: Cultural Responses to Persian Presence in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Ethnicity and Identity in Isaiah 56-66 -- Trito-Isaiah's Intra-and Internationalization: Identity Markers in the Second Temple Period -- From Ezekiel to Ezra-Nehemiah: Shifts of Group Identities within Babylonian Exilic Ideology -- Israel's Identity and the Threat of the Nations in the Persian Period -- The Rite of Separation of the Foreign Wives in Ezra-Nehemiah -- The Holy Seed: The Significance of Endogamous Boundaries and Their Transgression in Ezra 9-10 -- What Do Priests and Kings Have in Common? Priestly and Royal Succession Narratives in the Achaemenid Era -- Negotiating Identity: Cultural, Historical, Social, and Environmental Factors -- Yahwistic Names in Light of Late Babylonian Onomastics -- "Judean": A Special Status in Neo-Babylonian and Achemenid Babylonia? -- Some Observations on the Traditions Surrounding "Israel in Egypt" -- Judean Identity in Elephantine: Everyday Life according to the Ostraca -- The Interaction of Egyptian and Aramaic Literature -- Yehudite Identity in Elephantine -- Judean Ambassadors and the Making of Jewish Identity: The Case of Hananiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah -- Negotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Coinages of Persian-Period Palestine as an Allegory -- Judaeans, Jews, Children of Abraham -- The Controversy about Judean versus Israelite Identity and the Persian Government: A New Interpretation of the Bagoses Story (Jewish Antiquities XI.297-301) -- Surviving in an Imperial Context: Foreign Military Service and Judean Identity.

ʼel-mĕdînâ ûmĕdînâ kiktābāh: Scribes and Scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid Transeuphratene -- Jewish Identity in the Eastern Diaspora in Light of the Book of Tobit -- The Identity of the Idumeans Based on the Archaeological Evidence from Maresha -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture.