Unity and disunity in Ezra-Nehemiah
Subtitle: redaction, rhetoric, and reader
By: edited by Mark J. Boda and Paul L. Redditt.
Contributors: Boda, Mark J.; Redditt, Paul L.
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 17
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781906055400
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Nehemiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-361) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction /  Mark J. Boda, Paul Reddit -- The  function of covenant across Ezra-Nehemiah /  Richard J. Bautch --  Redaction in the book of Nehemiah: A fresh proposal / Mark J. Boda -- Leave Nehemiah alone : Nehemiah's 'tales' and fifth-century BCE historiography /  Margaret Cohen - Who wrote Ezra-Nehemiah - and why did they? /  Lisbeth S. Fried --  Holiness and Purity in Ezra-Nehemiah /  Hannah K. Harrington -- The cries of Jerusalem : ethnic, cultic, legal, and geographic boundaries in Ezra-Nehemiah / David Janzen -- Scrutinizing the conceptual unity of Ezra and Nehemiah /  Christiane Karrer-Grube --  Nehemiah without Ezra? / Kyung-jin Min -- The restoration of Israel by God's word in three episodes from Ezra-Nehemiah / Douglas J.E. Nykolaishen -- The disunity of Ezra-Nehemiah / Juha Pakkala -- The dependence of Ezra-Nehemiah on 1 and 2 Chronicles / Paul L. Reddit --  Nehemiah 8 and the authority of Torah in Ezra-Nehemiah /  Titus Reinmuth -- Contextualizations of Ezra-Nehemiah / Armin Siedlecki --  Seeking, finding and writing in Ezra-Nehemiah / Jacob L. Wright --  Responses -- Ezra-Nehemiah : Unity or Disunity /Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Unity and disunity in Ezra-Nehemiah : Responses and reflections / Tamara Cohn Eskenazi -- More unity than diversity / H.G.M. Williamson.