Susan Niditch explores ways in which followers of Yahweh are shown to privatize and personalize religion in the period from the conquest of Judea by Babylonia through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia. Works from this era reveal a strong interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of personal experience. These interests remain relevant to questions we still ask today as we seek to find meaning in life and make sense of the world.