The Edict of Cyrus and notions of restoration in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles / Andrew M. Gilhooley. [print]

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Gilhooley, Andrew M [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Hebrew Original language: Hebrew Series: Hebrew Bible monographs ; 89.Publication details: [Sheffield, England] : Sheffield Phoenix Press, (c)2020.Description: xiv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781910928714

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LOC classification:

DS121.G473.E353 2020
BS1200
DS121

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Contents:

Preliminary considerations -- The Edict of Cyrus as a compositional introduction -- The Edict of Cyrus as a compositional conclusion -- The Edict of Cyrus as a canonical conclusion -- Conclusion.

Subject: "The Edict of Cyrus, both opening Ezra-Nehemiah (Ezra 1:1-4) and closing Chronicles (2 Chron. 36:22-23), serves a different role in each book. In Ezra-Nehemiah, it is a command resulting in a restoration event that has failed, whereas in Chronicles it is a command anticipating a successful future restoration event. In the context of canon, these different uses of the edict are theologically significant, especially in formulating ideas of hope for the future in Chronicles. While Chronicles is aware that a historical restoration transpired sometime in the past (1 Chron. 3:19-24; 9:2-44), it shares the sentiment of Ezra-Nehemiah, that the return was something of a failure. Through compositional analysis, Gilhooley argues that the edict closing Chronicles portrays the true, or rather, complete restoration not as a past event to be reflected upon but rather one to be anticipated sometime in the future-at a time when Israel was expected to see the establishment of a new glorified temple, political independence, release from servitude, and the blessings of new creation and of new cultic order. Reading Chronicles as the last book of the Old Testament in accordance with various Jewish witnesses, we find that the edict is transformed into a programmatic conclusion to the canon. Accordingly, the eschatological return to Zion and reconstruction of the temple appear to be dominating concerns of the canonical editors. These verses that bring to an end both Chronicles and the Old Testament as a whole may also be read in dialogue with canon-conscious structural markers elsewhere and, therefore, could be formative in constructing a canonical theology."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Based on author's 2018 M. Phil. thesis, University of St Andrews.

Introduction -- Preliminary considerations -- The Edict of Cyrus as a compositional introduction -- The Edict of Cyrus as a compositional conclusion -- The Edict of Cyrus as a canonical conclusion -- Conclusion.

"The Edict of Cyrus, both opening Ezra-Nehemiah (Ezra 1:1-4) and closing Chronicles (2 Chron. 36:22-23), serves a different role in each book. In Ezra-Nehemiah, it is a command resulting in a restoration event that has failed, whereas in Chronicles it is a command anticipating a successful future restoration event. In the context of canon, these different uses of the edict are theologically significant, especially in formulating ideas of hope for the future in Chronicles. While Chronicles is aware that a historical restoration transpired sometime in the past (1 Chron. 3:19-24; 9:2-44), it shares the sentiment of Ezra-Nehemiah, that the return was something of a failure. Through compositional analysis, Gilhooley argues that the edict closing Chronicles portrays the true, or rather, complete restoration not as a past event to be reflected upon but rather one to be anticipated sometime in the future-at a time when Israel was expected to see the establishment of a new glorified temple, political independence, release from servitude, and the blessings of new creation and of new cultic order. Reading Chronicles as the last book of the Old Testament in accordance with various Jewish witnesses, we find that the edict is transformed into a programmatic conclusion to the canon. Accordingly, the eschatological return to Zion and reconstruction of the temple appear to be dominating concerns of the canonical editors. These verses that bring to an end both Chronicles and the Old Testament as a whole may also be read in dialogue with canon-conscious structural markers elsewhere and, therefore, could be formative in constructing a canonical theology."

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