Rebuilding identity : the Nehemiah-memoir and its earliest readers /
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Author / Creator: | Wright, Jacob L. |
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Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2004] ©2004 |
Description: | 1 online resource (386 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Band 348 Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 348. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014713 |
Summary: | This monograph presents a fresh and detailed treatment of the problems posed by the Nehemiah-Memoir. Starting from the pre-critical interpretations of Ezra-Neh, the study demonstrates that the use of the first-person does not suffice as a criterion for distinguishing between the verba Neemiae and the additions of later authors. The earliest edition of the Memoir is confined to a building report, which was expanded as early generations of readers developed the implications of Nehemiah's accomplishments for the consolidation and centralization of Judah. The expansions occasioned in turn the composition of the history of the "Restoration" in Ezra-Neh. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9783110927207 3110927209 3110183196 9783110183191 |