Judaism-- the first phase
Subtitle: the place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the origins of Jdaism
By: Joseph Blenkinsopp.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780802864505
Subjects: Ezra -- (Biblical figure); Nehemiah -- (Governor of Judah); Bible. -- O.T. -- Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Nehemiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Judaism -- Origin; Judaism -- History; Jewish sects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Origins; title: Towards the origins of Judaism; title: Judeans or Jews?; title: A clash of Titans : Eduard Meyer vs. Julius Wellhausen; title: From monocentrism to pluricentrism : a new situation; title: Who are the children of Abraham?; title: Ezra; title: Putting Ezra-Nehemiah in perspective; title: The Ezra story; title: Ezra's mission (Ezra 7:1; 8:34); title: Reading and expounding the law (Neh. 7:72; 8:18); title: The intermarriage crisis (Ezra 9-10); title: The Ezra profile; title: Ezra and the Golah; title: Nehemiah; title: The Nehemiah story; title: The Nehemiah memoir in its contemporary setting; title: The memoir compared with Egyptian; title: Commemorative inscriptions; title: Genre and literary character of the memoir; title: The Nehemiah memoir in the context of the book (Nehemiah 1-13); title: The Nehemiah profile; title: Ezra-Nehemiah : the roots of the ideology; title: The diaspora situation; title: Projections of a restored past in postdisaster prophecy; title: The prehistory of the ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah; title: Temple and divine presence; title: Ezekiel's law of the temple (tôrat habbayit); title: The status of foreigners; title: Marriage policy and ritual ethnicity; title: Temple priests and altar priests; title: The privileges and duties of the secular ruler; title: The land; title: Ezra and Nehemiah : history and ideology; title: Ezra andNehemiah as ideological points of reference; title: Closely related texts : Chronicles, First Esdras, Josephus; title: In praise of Nehemiah : Ben Sira and II Maccabees; title: Ezra between the Canonical Book and rabbinic attestations; title: How lasting were the achievements of Ezra and Nehemiah?; title: The sectarian element in early Judaism; title: What is a sect and how can it be recognized as such?; title: Aspects of sectarianism in Ezra-Nehemiah; title: Between Ezra-Nehemiah and Daniel : antecedents and continuities; title: Sectarian origins in the Babylonian diaspora; title: Legal interpretations and practice in Ezra-Nehemiah and late Second Temple sects; title: Provisional conclusion in four propositions.