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The Use of Leviticus in Ezra-Nehemiah
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2013 In light of the current disparity of views regarding the dating of Leviticus and Ezra-Nehemiah, this study revisits similar traditions found in these books in order to gain a sense of logical progression.
Hannah K. Harrington
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Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles—New Insights into the Early History of Samari(t)an–Jewish Relations
Religions, 2020 This article addresses the way the book of Ezra-Nehemiah on one hand and Chronicles on the other reflect the relationship between Samaria and Judah in the postexilic period.
Benedikt Hensel
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The structure of Ezra-Nehemiah as a literary unit
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 The OT books, Ezra and Nehemiah, are to be considered as one book. This is more or less the common conviction of most OT scholars today. However, their redaction process raises many questions.
Hans-Georg Wuench
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Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 629-649, November 2023., 2023 I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role‐played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent ...
Maroula Perisanidi
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A Comment on Ehud Ben Zvi’s Total Exile, Empty Land and the General Intellectual Discourse in Yehud.
Old Testament Essays, 2017 The Judeans of the Late Persian era could not interpret the “empty land” myth in any other way other than inclusively, including Ezra-Nehemiah, so argues Ehud Ben Zvi.
Ntozakhe Simon Cezula
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The Positive Role of Shame for Post-exilic Returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah
Old Testament Essays, 2020 While shame is often cast in a negative light as a response accompanied by destructive forces in modern culture, this article examines a different phenomenon and argues that shame plays an important positive role for post-exilic returnees in Ezra ...
Bin Kang
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The Construction of Judean Diasporic Identity in Ezra–Nehemiah
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2015 This essay explores how Ezra–Nehemiah partially inverts the traditional paradigm of exile found in other biblical writings. When one community is formed at some distance from another in antiquity, the derivative community normally appears as a dependent
Gary N. Knoppers
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The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The ‘harsh’ decision in Ezra 10:1–44 and Nehemiah 13:23–31 to terminate marriages with ‘foreign’ women falls strange on modern ears. This article reads these sections against the background of identity formation in Ezra-Nehemiah.
Pieter M. Venter
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Congruent ethos in the Second Temple literature of the Old Testament
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 Proposing the term ‘congruent ethos’ for studying Old Testament ethics, this article indicates (in line with existing research) that opposing ethical viewpoints are found in the Old Testament.
Pieter M. Venter
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Community Leadership, Diaspora, and Ezra-Nehemiah
Old Testament Essays, 2022 This article examines the last contributions that Gary Knoppers made to the study of Ezra-Nehemiah. In his last book, which was published posthumously, he examined the ‘conspicious’ disappearance of Zerubbabel from Ezra-Nehemiah (and from other prophetic
Louis Cloete Jonker
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