The Levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah / / Kyung-jin Min

• Autore: Min Kyung-Jin
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark International, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 222; 222.7066; 222/.7066
• Soggetto topico: Levites
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah
• ISBN: 1-281-80271-9; 9786611802714; 0-567-63272-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810679203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 409.