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New perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah : history and historiography, text, literature, and interpretation / edited by Isaac Kalimi.

Contributor(s): Kalimi, Isaac
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Winina Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012Description: xv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781575062334 (hardback : alk. paper); 157506233X (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Nehemiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 222/.706 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
In the Persian Period : new perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah / Isaac Kalimi -- Ezra's use of documents in the context of Hellenistic rules of rhetoric / Lisbeth S. Fried -- What was Nehehiah up to? : looking for models for Nehemiah's polity / Lester L. Grabbe -- Nehemiah : subject of the empire, subject of writing / Don Polaski -- Nehemiah as a "court Jew" / Klaas A.D. Smelik -- Nehemiah 3 : sources, composition and purpose / Oded Lipschits -- On Nehemiah's city-wall and the size of Jerusalem during the Persian Period : an archaeologist's view / David Ussishkin -- The real history : the theological ideas behind Nehemiah's wall / Mandred Oeming -- Some issues in Ezra-Nehemiah / Ran Zadok -- Hidden trasure : the unpublished doublet catchwords in Ezra-Nehemiah / David Marcus -- Where did the Judahites, Benjaminites, and Levites settle? : revisiting the text of Nehemiah 11:25-36 MT and LXX / Deirdre N. Fulton -- The census list in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 : a suggestion / Paul L. Redditt -- Nehemiah's request on behalf of Jerusalem / Joseph Fleishman -- Prayer as rhetoric in the Book of Nehemiah / Mark J. Boda.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the Persian Period : new perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah / Isaac Kalimi -- Ezra's use of documents in the context of Hellenistic rules of rhetoric / Lisbeth S. Fried -- What was Nehehiah up to? : looking for models for Nehemiah's polity / Lester L. Grabbe -- Nehemiah : subject of the empire, subject of writing / Don Polaski -- Nehemiah as a "court Jew" / Klaas A.D. Smelik -- Nehemiah 3 : sources, composition and purpose / Oded Lipschits -- On Nehemiah's city-wall and the size of Jerusalem during the Persian Period : an archaeologist's view / David Ussishkin -- The real history : the theological ideas behind Nehemiah's wall / Mandred Oeming -- Some issues in Ezra-Nehemiah / Ran Zadok -- Hidden trasure : the unpublished doublet catchwords in Ezra-Nehemiah / David Marcus -- Where did the Judahites, Benjaminites, and Levites settle? : revisiting the text of Nehemiah 11:25-36 MT and LXX / Deirdre N. Fulton -- The census list in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 : a suggestion / Paul L. Redditt -- Nehemiah's request on behalf of Jerusalem / Joseph Fleishman -- Prayer as rhetoric in the Book of Nehemiah / Mark J. Boda.

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