Studies in Persian Period History and Historiography

For at least 15 years, and with several significant works, Hugh Williamson contributed to the movement to recapture the importance of the biblical books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. Behind his widely acclaimed commentaries on these books lay many detailed historical and exegetical studies, published in a variety of journals, Festschriften and other works. The most important of these are here collected together for the first time, providing the scholar of the post-exilic period with a valuable resource in furthering research on this formative period in early Jewish history.

Born 1947; Graduate of Cambridge University; 1975-1992 Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at Cambridge; since 1992 Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford and Student of Christ Church, Fellow of the British Academy.