RARE collection of papers on the period of changes that occurred in the Land of Israel during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods - form the 6th through the 4th centuries BCE. This volume includes 10 studies, most of which were originally presented at the 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, held in Jerusalem in 2005. The authors are: Yigal Levin, Einat Ambar-Armon, Amos Kloner, Avaraham Faust, Diana Edelman, Rona S. Avissar, Joe Uziel, Aren M. Maier, Hanan Eshel, Bezalel Porten, Ada Yardeni, Esther Eshel, Lisbeth S. Fried, Ian Stern. The volume is divided into three sections - Archaeological, Epigraphic and Historical Studies, and includes indices of references and authors. 240x160mm. XX+260 pages. Hardcover. Cover edges, front cover upper corner and spine edges bumped. This extremely rare volume, of immense importance to scholars of the Second Temple Period, is otherwise in very good condition.