9:30- 11:15 Temple Economies and Empire
CHAIR: Esther Eshel

The Achaemenid Economic Revolution, The Restoration of Temples, and the Return to Zion
Avraham Faust

The Influence of Persian Tax Collecting Methods on the Second Temple's Economy
Ariel Kopilovitz

Imperial Support and Its Limits: Temple Rebuilding in Ezra–Nehemiah in the Cuneiform
Context of the Long Sixth Century BCE
Tova Ganzel and Shalom Holtz

11:30-13:45 Beyond Jerusalem

Beyond Jerusalem: The Rebuilding of the Temple of Aššur and the Assyrian Diaspora under Persian Rule
Jan Safford

‘There’s Work Enough to Do’: Enabling and Sustaining a Temple in Southern Abar-Nahara
Jason Silverman

Restoration Hopes in Persian-Period Temple Communities
Yuval Darabi

Tradition in Transition: Babylonian Temples Under Babylonian and Persian Rule
Yuval Levavi

The Persian Presence in Native and Colonial Temples in Egypt according to the Inscriptional Evidence
James Moore

13:45-14:45 Lunch Break

14:45-16:30 Temples: Real and Imagined

How to Build a Temple in the Persian Achaemenid Empire
Peter Zilberg
Acrostic Poems as Time Capsules: The Book of Lamentations' Memories of Solomon's Temple
Gard Granerød
The Temple in Deutero-Zechariah (Zech 14:20-21)
Noam Mizrahi