9:30- 11:15 Lived Realities
CHAIR: Shawna Dolansky

About the Garrison at Elephantine
Danel Kahn
Temple Finances in the Persian Period
Karel van der Toorn
‘Bring the Whole Tithe into the Storehouse’ (Malachi 3:10): The Institutional and Ideological Struggle over Temple Tithes and Its Reflection in Late Persian-Period Biblical Literature
Oded Lipschits

11:30-13:15 Achaemenid Babylonia and Jerusalem

“I Entered Babylon in Peace…”: Cyrus, the Temples of Babylonia, and the Sacred Cities across the Tigris
Caroline Waerzeggers
Reconstructing Temple Life in Achaemenid Babylonia: Beyond the Archives
Céline Debourse
Mixed Marriages and Priestly Privileges: On the Treatment of the Problem of Foreign Wives by Ezra and Nehemiah
Yigal Bloch

13:15-14:15 Lunch Break

14:15-16:00 Babylonia, Jerusalem, Egypt

Peripheral Temples in Southern Babylonia
Kathleen Abraham
Communities of Practice and Religious Identities in the Persian Period Southern Levant
Aren Maeir
The Library of the Temple of Khnum and the Judahites on Elephantine
Bernd Schipper