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Covenant in the Persian Period Eric Sheppard and the scope of publicThe 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished during the Neo Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods. Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temples destruction, the disenfranchisement of the Jerusalem priesthood, the deportation of Judeans to other lands, the struggles of Judeans who remained in the land, and the limited returns of some Judean