From the Rivers of Babylon to the Highlands of Judah : Collected Studies on the Restoration Period

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Supposed Common Authorship of Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah Investigated Anew -- Chapter 2 Conquest and Settlement in Chronicles -- Chapter 3 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Supposed Common Authorship of Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah Investigated Anew -- Chapter 2 Conquest and Settlement in Chronicles -- Chapter 3 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah: Part 1 -- Chapter 4 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah: Part 2 -- Chapter 5 People and Land in the Restoration Period -- Chapter 6 The Historical Reliability of Chronicles: The History of the Problem and Its Place in Biblical Research -- Chapter 7 Law and "The Law" in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 8 "History" and "Literature" in the Persian Period: The Restoration of the Temple -- Chapter 9 The Relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 10 The Temple in the Restoration Period: Reality and Ideology -- Chapter 11 The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as Reflected in Chronicles: A Case Study -- Chapter 12 Composition and Chronology in the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 13 The Prohibition of the Habitation of Women: The Temple Scroll's Attitude toward Sexual Impurity and Its Biblical Precedents -- Chapter 14 The Distribution of the Priestly Gifts according to a Document of the Second Temple Period -- Chapter 15 Postexilic Historiography: How and Why? -- Chapter 16 Exile and Restoration in the Book of Chronicles -- Chapter 17 Can the Persian Period Bear the Burden? Reflections on the Origins of Biblical History -- Chapter 18 Periodization between History and Ideology: The Neo-Babylonian Period in Biblical Historiography -- Chapter 19 Theodicy in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Chapter 20 Chronicles: A History -- Chapter 21 Periodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Chapter 22 The Concept of the "Remnant" in the Restoration Period: On the Vocabulary of Self-Definition -- Indexes Ausführliche Beschreibung