From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah Collected Studies on the Restoration Period / Sara Japhet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yefet, Śārā.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Chronicles--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. Nehemiah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

2. print.

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Culled 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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781575062143

1575062143

9781575065755

1575065754

OCLC:

747412044