LEADER 02973nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910782261703321 005 20230617010430.0 010 $a1-281-80271-9 010 $a9786611802714 010 $a0-567-63272-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000542282 035 $a(EBL)436740 035 $a(OCoLC)276783345 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191665 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12011336 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191665 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10185186 035 $a(PQKB)10351108 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436740 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436740 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10250562 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL180271 035 $a(OCoLC)893334374 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000542282 100 $a20040927d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah$b[electronic resource] /$fKyung-jin Min 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cT & T Clark International$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 1 $aJournal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;$v409 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-567-08226-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aThe study of Ezra-Nehemiah has been revolutionized in recent years by a growing rejection of the long-established belief that it was composed as part of the Chronicler's work. That shift in scholarly paradigms has re-opened many questions of origin and purpose, and this thesis attempts to establish an answer to the most important of these: the question of authorship. Here, Kyungjin Min argues that Ezra-Nehemiah most likely originated in a Levitical group that received Persian backing during the late-fifth century BCE and that valued the ideologies of decentralization of power, unity and cooper 410 0$aJournal for the study of the Old Testament.$pSupplement series ;$v409. 606 $aLevites 615 0$aLevites. 676 $a222 676 $a222.7066 676 $a222/.7066 700 $aMin$b Kyung-Jin$01469467 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782261703321 996 $aThe Levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah$93680944 997 $aUNINA