Witch-hunts, Purity, and Social Boundaries - The Expulsion of the Foreign Women in Ezra 9-10

Informationen zum Autor David Janzen is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Durham University, UK. Zusammenfassung This anthropological study of the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its comparative approach notes that the community responded to its weak social boundaries in the same fashion as societies with similar social weaknesses.

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• Authors: David Janzen
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9781841272924
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-292-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Social groups, Social, group or collective psychology, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Social groups, communities and identities