From the rivers of Babylon to the highlands of Judah : collected studies on the Restoration period / / Sara Japhet.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Japhet, Sara.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 469 p.

Table of Contents

• The supposed common authorship of Chronicles and Ezra/Nehemiah investigated anew
• Conquest and settlement in Chronicles
• Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 1
• Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 2
• People and land in the Restoration period
• The historical reliability of Chronicles : the history of the problem and its place in biblical research
• Law and "the law" in Ezra-Nehemiah
• "History" and "literature" in the Persian period : the restoration of the Temple
• The relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah
• The Temple in the Restoration period : reality and ideology
• The Israelite legal and social reality as reflected in Chronicles : a case study
• Composition and chronology in the book of Ezra-Nehemiah
• The prohibition of the habitation of women : the Temple scroll's attitude toward sexual impurity and its biblical precedents
• The distribution of the priestly gifts according to a document of the Second Temple period
• Postexilic historiography : how and why?
• Exile and restoration in the Book of Chronicles
• Can the Persian period bear the burden? : reflections on the origins of biblical history
• Periodization between history and ideology : the neo-Babylonian period in biblical historiography
• Theodicy in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles
• Chronicles : a history
• Periodization between history and ideology II : chronology and ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah
• The concept of the "remnant" in the Restoration period : on the vocabulary of self-definition.