Was 1 Esdras first?
Subtitle: an investigation into the priority and nature of First Esdras
By: edited by Lisbeth S. Fried
Contributors: Society of Biblical Literature
Series: Society of biblical literature : ancient israel and its literature -- no. 7
Publisher: Brill
Published: September 30, 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9789004202511
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Congresses
Other titles: Was One Esdras first?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lower criticism and higher criticism : the case of 1 Esdras / Deirdre N. Fulton and Gary N. Knoppers; title: Chicken or egg? : which came first, 1 Esdras or Ezra/Nehemiah? / Lester L. Grabbe; title: The relationship between Ezra/Nehemiah and 1 Esdras / Adrian Schenker; title: The story of the three youths and the composition of 1 Esdras / Bob Becking; title: The second year of Darius / Kristin De Troyer; title: Why the story of the three youths in 1 Esdras? / Lisbeth S. Fried; title: Why 1 Esdras is probably not an early version of the Ezra/Nehemiah tradition / Juha Pakkala; title: Ancient composition patterns mirrored in 1 Esdras and the priority of the canonical composition type / Zipora Talshir; title: Literary questions between Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 Esdras / James C. VanderKam; title: Remember Nehemiah : 1 Esdras and the damnatio memoriae Nehemiae / Jacob L. Wright; title: Articles investigating the nature of 1 Esdras; title: The image of the king(s) in 1 Esdras / Sebastian Grøtz; title: Darius' court and the guardsmen's debate : Hellenistic Greek elements in 1 Esdras / Paul B. Harvey, Jr.; title: Cyclical time and catalogues : the construction of meaning in 1 Esdras / Sylvie Honigman; title: Esdras : its genre, literary form, and goals / Sara Japhet; title: The rendering of 2 Chronicles 35/36 in 1 Esdras / Ralph W. Klein; title: Esdras as rewritten Bible? / H.G.M. Williamson.