From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah (2006 Japhet), book

From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah (2006) is a book by Sara Japhet.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006.

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.

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