Judaism, the First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism (2009 Blenkinsopp), book

Judaism, the First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism (2009) is a book by Joseph Blenkinsopp.

Editions and translations

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1. Origins
  • Toward the Origins of Judaism
  • Judeans or Jews?
  • A Clash of Titans: Eduard Meyer vs. Julius Wellhausen
  • From Monocentrism to Pluricentrism: A New Situation
  • Who Are the Children of Abraham?
• 2. Ezra
  • Putting Ezra-Nehemiah in Perspective
  • The Ezra Story
  • The Ezra Profile
  • Ezra and the Golah
• 3. Nehemiah
  • The Nehemiah Story
  • The Nehemiah Memoir in Its Contemporary Setting
  • The Memoir Compared with Egyptian Commemorative Inscriptions
  • Genre and Literary Character of the Memoir
  • The Nehemiah Memoir in the Context of the Book (Nehemiah 1-3)
  • The Nehemiah Profile
• 4. Ezra-Nehemiah: The Roots of the Ideology
  • The Diaspora Situation
  • Projections of a Restored Past in Postdisaster Prophecy
  • The Prehistory of the Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah
  • Temple and Divine Presence
  • Ezekiel's Law of the Temple (torat habbayit)
• 5. Ezra and Nehemiah: History and Ideology
  • Ezra and Nehemiah as Ideological Points of Reference
  • Closely Related Texts: Chronicles, First Esdras, Josephus
  • In Praise of Nehemiah: Ben Sira and II Maccabees
  • Ezra Between the Canonical Book and Rabbinic Attestations
  • How Lasting Were the Achievements of Ezra and Nehemiah?
• 6. The Sectarian Element in Early Judaism
  • What is a Sect and How can it be Recognized as Such?
  • Aspects of Sectarianism in Ezra and Nehemiah
  • Between Ezra-Nehemiah and Daniel: Antecedents and Continuities
  • Sectarian Origins in the Babylonian Diaspora
  • Legal Interpretations and Practice in Ezra-Nehemiah and Late Second Temple Sects
• 7. Provisional Conclusion in Four Propositions

External links

• Google Books (partial text)