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Much ink has been spilled over the matter of Persian taxation and the Achaemenid fiscal administration in Judah during the earlier Second Temple period (WILLIAMSON, 1985, p 238; BLENKINSOPP, 1988, p 60-69; p 257-258). This notion has enjoyed wide currency thanks to Olmstead`s (1948, p 289-301) comprehensive history of the Persian Empire, which early on paved the way for several views on the supposed excessiveness of Achaemenid taxation1 as well as on an alleged Persian hoarding of silver through money taxes and its damage to the empire`s economy (BRENEMAN . . .
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