by Jason M. Silverman
This post is a summary of the recently published article, Jason M. Silverman, “Achaemenid Creation and Second Isaiah” Journal of Persianate Studies 10.1 (2017): 26–48. In two years, it will also be available on my academia.edu-profile. Continue reading Isaiah’s Benevolent Creator as the earliest Persian ‘Influence’ on Judaism
The below is a brief introduction to the new edited volume Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire (Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers, eds; ANEM 13; Atlanta: SBL, 2015). The volume is open access and freely available for download at SBL Publications. To download the volume, click here. To order a paper- or hardback copy, click here. Continue reading Understanding the Social and Political Impact of Persian Kingship
Scholars looking to understand from where the figure of Satan derives have long appealed to Iranian influence, particularly in the form of the Zoroastrian Angra Mainyu (Ahriman). I argue instead that the first appearance of the term as a noun in the Hebrew Bible ought to be understood as an administrative official of the Achaemenid Empire. This continues a working hypothesis of mine that various aspects of the divine realm was envisioned as similar to the Achaemenid Empire by some in Second Temple Judaism. Continue reading The Origins of Satan in Judaism
by Jason Silverman
At the 2015 European Association of Biblical Studies conference in Cordoba, Spain (12–15 July, 2015), I’ll be co-chairing a new research group with Caroline Waerzeggers and Anne-Mareike Wetter (both Leiden University), called “Judaeans in the Persian Empire“. Continue reading Call for Papers: “Judaeans in the Persian Empire” (Cordoba, July 2015)
