From the rivers of Babylon to the highlands of Judah collected studies on the Restoration period /

Main Author: Japhet, Sara.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10483388
Table of Contents:
  • The supposed common authorship of Chronicles and Ezra/Nehemiah investigated anew
  • Conquest and settlement in Chronicles
  • Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 1
  • Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 2
  • People and land in the Restoration period
  • The historical reliability of Chronicles : the history of the problem and its place in biblical research
  • Law and "the law" in Ezra-Nehemiah
  • "History" and "literature" in the Persian period : the restoration of the Temple
  • The relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah
  • The Temple in the Restoration period : reality and ideology
  • The Israelite legal and social reality as reflected in Chronicles : a case study
  • Composition and chronology in the book of Ezra-Nehemiah
  • The prohibition of the habitation of women : the Temple scroll's attitude toward sexual impurity and its biblical precedents
  • The distribution of the priestly gifts according to a document of the Second Temple period
  • Postexilic historiography : how and why?
  • Exile and restoration in the Book of Chronicles
  • Can the Persian period bear the burden? : reflections on the origins of biblical history
  • Periodization between history and ideology : the neo-Babylonian period in biblical historiography
  • Theodicy in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles
  • Chronicles : a history
  • Periodization between history and ideology II : chronology and ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah
  • The concept of the "remnant" in the Restoration period : on the vocabulary of self-definition.