Blenkinsopp, Joseph,  1927-, <br/><br/>
Judaism, the first phase :  the place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the origins of Judaism /  [print] 
Joseph Blenkinsopp. 
 - Grand Rapids, Michigan :  William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company,  (c)2009. 
 - xiv, 262 pages ;  23 cm. 
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<br/><br/>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 (torat 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802864505 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009015429 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Ezra (Biblical figure) <br/>Nehemiah (Governor of Judah) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Judaism--Origin.<br/>Judaism--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS580 BS580.B647.J833 2009