From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah : : Collected Studies on the Restoration Period / / Sara Japhet.

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• VerfasserIn: Japhet, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

Culled from various books, journals, and festscrifts, the most important essays by Sara Japhet on the biblical restoration period and the books of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles appear in this accessible collection. Japhet, who is Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received the Israel Prize for biblical scholarship in 2004, has been a leading scholar on these topics for more than 30 years. Included here are studies on the question of common authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles, the temple during the restoration period, the use of the law in Ezra-Nehemiah, postexilic historiography, the "remnant" and self-definition during the restoration period, the historical reliability of Chronicles, and conquest and settlement in Chronicles. Scholars and students with an interest in the history, historiography, and theology of the restoration period, and in the interpretation of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles will want to own this compendium of valuable essays.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Supposed Common Authorship of Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah Investigated Anew -- Chapter 2 Conquest and Settlement in Chronicles -- Chapter 3 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah: Part 1 -- Chapter 4 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah: Part 2 -- Chapter 5 People and Land in the Restoration Period -- Chapter 6 The Historical Reliability of Chronicles: The History of the Problem and Its Place in Biblical Research -- Chapter 7 Law and "The Law" in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 8 "History" and "Literature" in the Persian Period: The Restoration of the Temple -- Chapter 9 The Relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 10 The Temple in the Restoration Period: Reality and Ideology -- Chapter 11 The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as Reflected in Chronicles: A Case Study -- Chapter 12 Composition and Chronology in the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 13 The Prohibition of the Habitation of Women: The Temple Scroll's Attitude toward Sexual Impurity and Its Biblical Precedents -- Chapter 14 The Distribution of the Priestly Gifts according to a Document of the Second Temple Period -- Chapter 15 Postexilic Historiography: How and Why? -- Chapter 16 Exile and Restoration in the Book of Chronicles -- Chapter 17 Can the Persian Period Bear the Burden? Reflections on the Origins of Biblical History -- Chapter 18 Periodization between History and Ideology: The Neo-Babylonian Period in Biblical Historiography -- Chapter 19 Theodicy in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Chapter 20 Chronicles: A History -- Chapter 21 Periodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 22 The Concept of the "Remnant" in the Restoration Period: On the Vocabulary of Self-Definition -- Indexes