Judaism, the first phase : the place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the origins of Judaism /
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| Author / Creator: | Blenkinsopp, Joseph, 1927- |
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| Imprint: | Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. |
| Description: | xiv, 262 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7899857 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Origins
- Towards the origins of Judaism
- Judeans or Jews?
- A clash of Titans : Eduard Meyer vs. Julius Wellhausen
- From monocentrism to pluricentrism : a new situation
- Who are the children of Abraham?
- Ezra
- Putting Ezra-Nehemiah in perspective
- The Ezra story
- Ezra's mission (Ezra 7:1-8:34)
- Reading and interpreting the law (Neh. 7:72b-8:18)
- The intermarriage crisis (Ezra 9-10)
- The Ezra profile
- Ezra and the Golah
- Nehemiah
- The Nehemiah story
- The Nehemiah memoir in its contemporary setting
- The memoir compared with Egyptian
- Commemorative inscriptions
- Genre and literary character of the memoir
- The Nehemiah memoir in the context of the book (Nehemiah 1-13)
- The Nehemiah profile
- Ezra-Nehemiah : the roots of the ideology
- The diaspora situation
- Projections of a restored past in postdisaster prophecy
- The prehistory of the ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah
- Temple and divine presence
- Ezekiel's law of the temple (tôrat habbayit)
- The status of foreigners
- Marriage policy and ritual ethnicity
- Temple priests and altar priests
- The privileges and duties of the secular ruler
- The land
- Ezra and Nehemiah : history and ideology
- Ezra and Nehemiah as ideological points of reference
- Closely related texts : Chronicles, First Esdras, Josephus
- In praise of Nehemiah : Ben Sira and II Maccabees
- Ezra between the Canonical Book and rabbinic attestations
- How lasting were the achievements of Ezra and Nehemiah?
- The sectarian element in early Judaism
- What is a sect and how can it be recognized as such?
- Aspects of sectarianism in Ezra-Nehemiah
- Between Ezra-Nehemiah and Daniel : antecedents and continuities
- Sectarian origins in the Babylonian diaspora
- Legal interpretations and practice in Ezra-Nehemiah and late Second Temple sects
- Provisional conclusion in four propositions.
