Ezra-Nehemiah: An Introduction and Study Guide - Israel's Quest for Identity

This guide to Ezra and Nehemiah showcases the latest developments and most up-to-date scholarship on these important texts. Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of the people in Yehud in the 6th and the 5th centuries BCE. This was a time of economic hardship. The people living in and around Jerusalem were scratching out a living in a land that had been devastated by war. It was also a time of soul searching. Having lost their political autonomy and national identity, the people in Yehud had to find new ways of understanding and shaping their identity. Ezra and Nehemiah provide glimpses of these issues by way of an assortment of narratives, lists, letters, and other types of records. The readers encounter different voices and different opinions. Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer provides an overview of the various texts and the topics, concerns, and disputes that they reflect. The guide also zooms in on select key issues pertaining to the development of the text, its historical background(s), the quest for identity, and its afterlife in Jewish and Christian traditions.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Structure of Ezra-Nehemiah
Chapter 2: The Composition History of Ezra-Nehemiah
Chapter 3: The Situation in Post-Monarchic Yehud
Chapter 4: The Marriage Crisis
Chapter 5: Ezra-Nehemiah in its Later Reception
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She has written widely on the prophetic literature, including two full-length monographs on aspects of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Zechariah.

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• Authors: Dr Lena-Sofia (OErebro School of Theology Tiemeyer, Dr Lena-Sofia (Orebro School of Theology Tiemeyer, Dr Lena-Sofia (University of Aberdeen Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia (University of Aberdeen Tiemeyer
• Assisted by: Adrian H Curtis (Editor), Adrian H. Curtis (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.2017
• EAN: 9780567674999
• ISBN: 978-0-567-67499-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 12 mm
• Series: T&T Clark's Study Guides to the Old Testament; T&t Clark's Study Guides to th; T&t Clark S Study Guides to th; T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Old Testaments, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics