Lisbeth S. Fried. “The Construction of Public Works in the Persian Empire: Nehemiah’s Wall as a Test Case”
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L. Fried provides a re-analysis of Nehemiah’s account of the construction of Jerusalem’s city-wall (Neh. 3). Against a recent suggestion by O. Lipschits, according to whom the building work was financed (חזק) by wealthy citizens, she argues that the repairs were undertaken within the context of imperial taxation, in form of corvée labour as denoted by Akkadian ilku and Aramaic halak. With this aim, she points out parallels in the documentation from elsewhere in the Achaemenid Empire, in parti...