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

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

Abstract

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

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