From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah: Collected Studies on the Restoration PeriodCulled from various books, journals, and festscrifts, the most important essays by Sara Japhet on the biblical restoration period and the books of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles appear in this accessible collection. Japhet, who is Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received the Israel Prize for biblical scholarship in 2004, has been a leading scholar on these topics for more than 30 years. Included here are studies on the question of common authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles, the temple during the restoration period, the use of the law in Ezra-Nehemiah, postexilic historiography, the “remnant” and self-definition during the restoration period, the historical reliability of Chronicles, and conquest and settlement in Chronicles. Scholars and students with an interest in the history, historiography, and theology of the restoration period, and in the interpretation of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles will want to own this compendium of valuable essays. |
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Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of EzraNehemiah Part 1 | 53 |
Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of EzraNehemiah Part 2 | 85 |
People and Land in the Restoration Period | 96 |
The Historical Reliability of Chronicles The History of the Problem and Its Place in Biblical Research | 117 |
Law and The Law in EzraNehemiah | 137 |
History and Literature in the Persian Period The Restoration of the Temple | 152 |
The Prohibition of the Habitation of Women The Temple Scrolls Attitude toward Sexual Impurity and Its Biblical Precedents | 268 |
The Distribution of the Priestly Gifts according to a Document of the Second Temple Period | 289 |
Postexilic Historiography How and Why? | 307 |
Exile and Restoration in the Book of Chronicles | 331 |
Can the Persian Period Bear the Burden? Reflections on the Origins of Biblical History | 342 |
Periodization between History and Ideology The NeoBabylonian Period in Biblical Historiography | 353 |
Theodicy in EzraNehemiah and Chronicles | 367 |
Chronicles A History | 399 |
The Relationship between Chronicles and EzraNehemiah | 169 |
The Temple in the Restoration Period Reality and Ideology | 183 |
The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as Reflected in Chronicles A Case Study | 233 |
Composition and Chronology in the Book of EzraNehemiah | 245 |
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From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah: Collected Studies on ... Sara Japhet No preview available - 2006 |