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Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 0: Introduction -- Chapter 1: History of Scholarship and Methodology -- 1.1. Taking an Outside View -- 1.1.1. Economics in Old Testament Studies -- 1.2. Philosophical Methodology -- 1.3. Approaching a Definition and Methodology for Understanding the Economy and Economic Structures of Ancient Israel -- 1.3.1. Definitions of 'Economics' and 'Value' -- 1.3.2. Current Approaches to Ancient Economics: Modernist, Marxist, and Substantivist Analysis -- 1.3.3. A Way Forward: New Institutional Economics -- Chapter 2: The Traditionally Royal Role of Economics in Mesopotamia -- 2.1. Prices -- 2.2. Wages -- 2.3. Debt and Interest -- 2.4. Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Economics, Cult, and Society in Preexilic Biblical Texts -- 3.1. Economics in Preexilic Israel and Syro-Palestine -- Excurses: Prices and Exchange -- 3.2. Economics in Preexilic Biblical Texts -- 3.2.1. Prophets -- 3.2.2. Legal texts -- 3.2.3. Kings -- 3.3. Conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Economic Background of the Persian Period -- 4.1. The Babylonian Period in Yehud -- 4.2. The Transition to Persian Hegemony -- 4.3. Persian Imperial Economy -- 4.3.1 The Rise of Coinage: Historical and Methodological Reflections -- 4.3.2. The Coinage of the Greater Persian Economy -- 4.3.3. Persepolis -- 4.3.4. Babylonia -- 4.3.5. The "Greek World" -- 4.3.6. The Phoenician City-States -- 4.3.7. The Philistine Coast -- 4.3.8. Egypt and Elephantine -- 4.3.9. Samaria and Wadi Daliyeh -- 4.3.10. Idumea -- 4.3.11. Conclusions -- 4.4. Yehud: The Record of its Material Culture in the Persian Period -- 4.4.1. The Rebuilding of the Temple, the City of Jerusalem, and Demography -- 4.4.2. Yehud Coinage -- 4.4.3. Changes in the Fourth Century - Historical and Economic -- 4.4.4. Conclusions from the Material Culture and Coins. Chapter 2: The Traditionally Royal Role of Economics in Mesopotamia -- 2.1. Prices -- 2.2. Wages -- 2.3. Debt and Interest -- 2.4. Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Economics, Cult, and Society in Preexilic Biblical Texts -- 3.1. Economics in Preexilic Israel and Syro-Palestine -- Excurses: Prices and Exchange -- 3.2. Economics in Preexilic Biblical Texts -- 3.2.1. Prophets -- 3.2.2. Legal texts -- 3.2.3. Kings -- 3.3. Conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Economic Background of the Persian Period -- 4.1. The Babylonian Period in Yehud -- 4.2. The Transition to Persian Hegemony -- 4.3. Persian Imperial Economy 4.3.1 The Rise of Coinage: Historical and Methodological Reflections -- 4.3.2. The Coinage of the Greater Persian Economy -- 4.3.3. Persepolis -- 4.3.4. Babylonia -- 4.3.5. The "Greek World" -- 4.3.6. The Phoenician City-States -- 4.3.7. The Philistine Coast -- 4.3.8. Egypt and Elephantine -- 4.3.9. Samaria and Wadi Daliyeh -- 4.3.10. Idumea -- 4.3.11. Conclusions -- 4.4. Yehud: The Record of its Material Culture in the Persian Period -- 4.4.1. The Rebuilding of the Temple, the City of Jerusalem, and Demography -- 4.4.2. Yehud Coinage 4.4.3. Changes in the Fourth Century - Historical and Economic -- 4.4.4. Conclusions from the Material Culture and Coins -- 4.5. Persian-Period Economics in Yehud -- Chapter 5: Economics in Persian Period Biblical Texts: Broad Contexts -- 5.1. Chronicles -- 5.2. Priestly Document -- 5.3. The "Holiness Code" -- 5.4. Deutero-Isaiah -- 5.5. Haggai and Zechariah -- 5.6. Trends and Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Historical and Composition-Critical Setting of Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 7: Who Pays? The Economics of a Theological Question in Ezra 1-8 -- 7.1. Ezra 2:68-69 -- 7.2. Ezra 3:7 7.3. Ezra 4:13, 20 -- 7.4. Ezra 6:4, 8-10, 13 -- 7.5. Ezra 7:14-24 -- 7.6. Conclusions from the Book of Ezra -- Chapter 8: Nehemiah: The Community-Defining Economic Ethics of Tithes, Taxes, Commerce, and Debt -- 8.1. Nehemiah 3: Pelek as Work or Military Service -- 8.2. Nehemiah 5:1-13: Lending and Judean Identity -- 8.2.1. Philological Reflections on Economic Terms in Neh 5:1-13 -- 8.2.2. Compositional and Historical Location of Neh 5:1-13 -- 8.2.3. Interpretation of Neh 5:1-13 -- 8.3. Nehemiah 5:14-19: The Economics of Nehemiah's Table 8.3.1 Philological, Text-Critical, and Composition-critical Observations
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