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. Klappentext The anthropological approach to 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. This book argues that the post-exilic community's decision to expel the foreign women in its midst was the direct result of the community's inability to enforce a common morality among its members. This anthropological approach to the expulsion shows how other societies with weak social moralities tend to react with witch-hunts, and it suggests that the expulsion in Ezra 9-10 was precisely such an activity. It concludes with an examination of the political and economic forces that could have eroded the social morality of the community. 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.

Product details

• 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; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; 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