TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blenkinsopp,Joseph
TI  - Judaism, the first phase: the place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the origins of Judaism 
SN  - 9780802864505
AV  - BS580 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company
KW  - Ezra
KW  - Nehemiah
KW  - Bible
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Origin
KW  - History
N1  - 1 and indexes; 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; 2
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