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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Janzen
• Collaboration: Claudia V. Camp (Editeur), Andrew Mein (Editeur)
• Edition: Bloomsbury Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9781841272924
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-292-4
• Pages: 192
• Thèmes: JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; JSOT Supplement (Hardcover); The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Recherche en structures sociales; 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