The Levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah:
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Main Author: Min, Kyung-Jin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London T & T Clark International ©2004
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament 409
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-169)-and indexes
Part I. Priestly or Levitical authorship? ; Ezra-Nehemiah as an independent single work -- Priestly or Levitical authorship? -- Part II. Literary context ; Levites in Old Testament texts since the exile -- Levites in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Part III. Historical context ; Two clues -- Levitical authorship
The study of Ezra-Nehemiah has been revolutionized in recent years by a growing rejection of the long-established belief that it was composed as part of the Chronicler's work. That shift in scholarly paradigms has re-opened many questions of origin and purpose, and this thesis attempts to establish an answer to the most important of these: the question of authorship. Here, Kyungjin Min argues that Ezra-Nehemiah most likely originated in a Levitical group that received Persian backing during the late-fifth century BCE and that valued the ideologies of decentralization of power, unity and cooper
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 179 pages)
ISBN:9780567632722
0567632725
9780567082268
0567082261

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