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Empire Power and Indigenous Elites: A Case Study of the Nehemiah Memoir

Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley

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Ancient Near Eastern empires, including Assyria, Babylon and Persia, frequently permitted local rulers to remain in power. The roles of the indigenous elites reflected in the Nehemiah Memoir can be compared to those encountered elsewhere. Nehemiah was an imperial appointee, likely of a military/administrative background, whose mission was to establish a birta in Jerusalem, thereby limiting the power of local elites. As a loyal servant of Persia, Nehemiah brought to his mission a certain amount of ethnic/cultic colouring seen in certain aspects of his activities in Jerusalem, in particular in his use of Mosaic authority . Nehemiah appealed to ancient Jerusalemite traditions in order to eliminate opposition to him from powerful local elite networks.

Language: English

Pages: 328

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Release: April 01, 2015

ISBN: 9004289887

ISBN 13: 9789004289888

Empire Power and Indigenous Elites: A Case Study of the Nehemiah Memoir

Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley

0/5 ( ratings)

Ancient Near Eastern empires, including Assyria, Babylon and Persia, frequently permitted local rulers to remain in power. The roles of the indigenous elites reflected in the Nehemiah Memoir can be compared to those encountered elsewhere. Nehemiah was an imperial appointee, likely of a military/administrative background, whose mission was to establish a birta in Jerusalem, thereby limiting the power of local elites. As a loyal servant of Persia, Nehemiah brought to his mission a certain amount of ethnic/cultic colouring seen in certain aspects of his activities in Jerusalem, in particular in his use of Mosaic authority . Nehemiah appealed to ancient Jerusalemite traditions in order to eliminate opposition to him from powerful local elite networks.

Language: English

Pages: 328

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Release: April 01, 2015

ISBN: 9004289887

ISBN 13: 9789004289888

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