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By Philip Y. Yoo

Ezra and the second one desolate tract addresses the connection among Ezra, the Ezra Memoir, and the Pentateuch. Tracing the expansion of the Ezra Memoir and its incorporation into Ezra-Nehemiah, Philip Y. Yoo discusses the literary techniques used by many of the composers and redactors working within the post-exilic interval. After the strata in Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 8-10 are pointed out, what emerges because the base Ezra Memoir is a coherent account of Ezra's
leadership of the exiles from Babylon over the process a unmarried 12 months, one who is intricately modelled at the a number of displays of Moses and the Israelite wasteland preserved within the Pentateuch. via dialogue of the detected impacts, allusions, and omissions among the Pentateuch and the Ezra Memoir,
Yoo exhibits that the Ezra Memoir demonstrates an in depth knowing of its resource fabrics and obtained traditions because it constructs the Babylonian returnees because the inheritors of torah and, in flip, the real and extraordinary successors of the Israelite cult.

This examine provides the Ezra Memoir as a cosmopolitan instance of 'biblical' interpretation within the moment Temple interval. It additionally means that the Ezra Memoir has entry to the Pentateuch in just its constituent components. Acknowledging not just the antiquity but in addition efficacy of its prototypes, the Ezra Memoir employs quite a few hermeneutical ideas as a way to harmonize the competing claims of its authoritative assets. In final the temporal hole among those resources and its own
contemporary time, the Ezra Memoir can provide authority to the utopic prior but additionally tasks its personal imaginative and prescient for the correct worship of Israel's deity.

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