Böhm J (2027)
Publication Status: Accepted
Publication Type: Unpublished / Preprint
Future Publication Type: Article in Edited Volumes
Publication year: 2027
Publisher: Routledge
Edited Volumes: Routledge Handbook of Egypt and the Hebrew Bible
City/Town: London, New York
Compared to previous centuries, Egypto-Levantine contacts changed profoundly during the Persian period. This is due to the fact that these relations, after the Babylonian campaigns to the Levant from the late 7th to the early 6th century, as well as the conquest of Egypt by the Persian king Cambyses II in 526 b.c.e., did not unfold between (semi-) independent territorial states, but between two regions that were likewise part of the Persian empire. In the socio-cultural context of an increasingly entangled Eastern Mediterranean, Egypto-Levantine contacts were primarily mediated by trade networks and migrant communities. When Egypt regained independence from the Achaemenids under pharaoh Amyrtaios in 405/404 b.c.e., its contacts with the Levant did not break up. Rather, in addition to trade networks connecting Egypt with the Levant, the pharaohs of the 28th–30th dynasty pursued an active foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean, including the Southern Levant, and temporarily even extended their influence to the Levantine coast.
APA:
Böhm, J. (2027). Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Persian Period. (Unpublished, Accepted).
MLA:
Böhm, Jonathan. Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Persian Period. Unpublished, Accepted. 2027.
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