Introduction
1 How Persian Power Entered Egypt
1.1 Egypt Before the Persians
1.2. Persia’s Rise to Power
1.3 Cambyses Came to Egypt
1.4 Darius’ Consolidation
1.5 ‘The Silver and the Ebony were brought from Egypt’ or: The Character of Persian Rule in Egypt
1.6 Who was Cambyses and what exactly is meant by the verb ‘to conquer’?
2 Yehudites at Elephantine: Provenance, Identity, and Religion
2.1 Jews, Judaeans, Judaeo-Arameans, or Yehudites?
2.2 How Did They Come to Egypt?
2.3 Religious Identity
2.4 Yehudite Identity in Elephantine
3 Multi-ethnic Elephantine: Some Remarks on Different Minor Ethnicities in a Persian Border Garrison
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Eastern Satrapies
3.3 Anatolia
3.4 Phoenicians
3.5 Philistine
3.6 The Aegean Sea
3.7 Various People
3.8 Conclusion and Prospect
4 Pax Persica: Cooperation, Cohabitation, and Acceptance
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Intermarriage
4.3 Salutations in Letters
4.4 Trade Contacts
4.5 Oaths and Other Deities
4.6 An Interreligious Figurine
4.7. Conclusions and Questions
5 Control through Education, Law, and Military Power
5.1 Introduction: Two Literary Texts
5.2 Aḥiqar as Scribal Propaganda
5.3 The Function of the Aramaic Version of the Behistun Inscription
5.4 Law
5.5 Military
5.6 An Inadequate Analogy
6 Disruptions of the Inter-Ethnic Solidarity
6.1 A Stone of Contention
6.2 A Conflict between Egyptians and Yehudites
6.3 Burglary in Times of Turmoil
6.4 The Crisis around the Demolition of the Temple of Yahô in Elephantine
6.5 Concluding Question
7 Khnum is Against us Since Hananiah has been in Egypt’ On Two Historical Movements in the Fifth Century BCE
7.1 From the oasis in the desert to the Land of the Pyramids (Papyrus Amherst 63)
7.2 The Egyptian Strive for Independence
8 Beyond the Final Curtain
8.1 Independent under Nepherites
8.2 The Fate of the Yehudites and other Minorities
8.3 Some Speculations
8.4 Conclusions
8.5 A Final Remark