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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453922403321

Autore

Min Kyung-Jin

Titolo

The Levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah [[electronic resource] /] / Kyung-jin Min

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark International, c2004

ISBN

1-281-80271-9

9786611802714

0-567-63272-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 409

Disciplina

222

222.7066

222/.7066

Soggetti

Levites

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Part I: PRIESTLY OR LEVITICAL AUTHORSHIP?; Chapter 1 EZRA-NEHEMIAH AS AN INDEPENDENT SINGLE WORK; Chapter 2 PRIESTLY OR LEVITICAL AUTHORSHIP?; Summary of Part I; Part II: LITERARY CONTEXT; Chapter 3 LEVITES IN OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS SINCE THE EXILE; Chapter 4 LEVITES IN EZRA-NEHEMIAH; Summary of Part II; Part III: HISTORICAL CONTEXT; Chapter 5 Two CLUES; Chapter 6 LEVITICAL AUTHORSHIP; Summary of Part III; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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