The Construction of Judean Diasporic Identity in Ezra–Nehemiah

Knoppers, Gary N.

doi:10.5508/jhs.2015.v15.a3

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“…Heckl (2016:292) sees the clashes between the Ptolemeans and Seleucids of the late third century BCE as the background of the final form of Ezra-Nehemiah. Knoppers (2015:3) widens the scope to both the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. According to Eskenazi (2008:327) a Persian period can be accepted on the same grounds that Siedlecki and others used for their conclusion.…”

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The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited

Venter

2018

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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The ‘harsh’ decision in Ezra 10:1–44 and Nehemiah 13:23–31 to terminate marriages with ‘foreign’ women falls strange on modern ears. This article reads these sections against the background of identity formation in Ezra-Nehemiah. It is proposed that these two passages should be studied on more than just one level. It states that synchronic, literary-redactional and socio-historical methods are to be combined in an effort to better understand why marriages were dissolved in Ezra and Nehemiah.

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Section: Identity In Ezra-nehemiah In the Persian And Hellenistic Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited

Venter

2018

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel

Roby

2022

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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In the wake of Israeli Black Panther activism in the mid-1970s, the Arab League invited Mizrahi (Afro-Asian) Jews, especially those in Israel, to return to their homeland. Some Israelis used the invitation as an opportunity to highlight the extent of anti-Mizrahi discrimination by departing for the Arab world. Albeit small in number in comparison to those who left Israel for other destinations, those who repatriated made a huge impact on perceptions of Israeli emigres. Their importance rested not in their numbers but in the significant threat posed to the Israeli establishment. Afro-Asian Jewish repatriation sent a message that the Zionist project, particularly as the opposing nationalist movement to Pan-Arabism, was a failure.

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Embedded Written Documents as Colonial Mimicry in Ezra-Nehemiah

Jones

2018

Biblical Interpret

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The unity of the final form of Ezra-Nehemiah has long been the consensus position among scholars in the field. This article challenges that consensus by comparing and contrasting the use of embedded written documents in Ezra 7 and Nehemiah 10 through the theoretical lens of colonial mimicry. I argue that the Artaxerxes rescript in Ezra 7 strategically mimics imperial discourse by assuming that propagandistic Persian rhetoric to Babylon and Egypt should also naturally apply to Yehud despite its peripheral status. By contrast, Nehemiah 10 invokes indigenous Judean writing to challenge the legitimacy of imperial domination. The sharply differing political programs articulated by these two texts, combined with literary and manuscript evidence from antiquity, suggests that the canonical book of Ezra-Nehemiah is an outlier among ancient Judean texts in juxtaposing the figures of Ezra and Nehemiah.

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The Construction of Judean Diasporic Identity in Ezra–Nehemiah

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited

The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited

Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel

Embedded Written Documents as Colonial Mimicry in Ezra-Nehemiah

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