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Periodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra–Nehemiah

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Abstract

The present essay is a follow-up to two earlier works that related to the two components of its title: “Chronology and Composition in Ezra–Nehemiah,” and “Periodization between History and Ideology: the Neo-Babylonian Period in Biblical Historiography.” This review of Ezra–Nehemiah (= EN) from the perspective of these three aspects—chronology, composition and periodization—and in their conjunction, will bring to light the work’s particular nature and its historical and ideological goals. It will expose the figure of the historian who undertook to write the history of the Restoration Period and determined for generations the historical picture of the
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJudah and the Judeans in the Persian Period
EditorsOded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming
Place of PublicationUnited States
PublisherPenn State University Press
Pages491-508
ISBN (Electronic)1575065614, 9781575065618
ISBN (Print)157506104X, 9781575061047
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

Bibliographical note

Included in: From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah, 2006, pp. 416-431 (Ch. 21)

Keywords

  • Ancient history: to c 500 CE

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