When generations really count : dating Zerubbabel and Nehemiah using genealogical information in the Book of Nehemiah -- What's in a date? : the unreliable nature of the dates in Haggai and Zechariah -- It's all in the sources : the historicity of the account of temple-rebuilding in Ezra 1-6 -- Setting the bounds : the territory comprising Yehud under Artaxerxes I in the mid-5th century BCE -- Excavating the past : settlement patterns and military installations in Persian-era Yehud -- Piety or pragmatism? : the policy of Artaxerxes I for the development of Yehud
Summary
Darius I, King of Persia, claimed to have rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem but this book argues that it was rebuilt under the reign of Artaxerxes I
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-405) and index
