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By Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

This advisor to Ezra and Nehemiah showcases the most recent advancements and latest scholarship on those vital texts. Ezra and Nehemiah inform the tale of the folks in Yehud within the sixth and the fifth centuries BCE. This used to be a time of monetary hassle. the folk residing in and round Jerusalem have been scratching out a dwelling in a land that have been devastated through battle. It was once additionally a time of soul looking. Having misplaced their political autonomy and nationwide id, the folk in Yehud needed to locate new methods of knowing and shaping their identification.

Ezra and Nehemiah offer glimpses of those concerns in terms of an collection of narratives, lists, letters, and different sorts of files. The readers come across varied voices and diversified reviews. Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer presents an outline of a number of the texts and the subjects, matters, and disputes that they mirror. The advisor additionally zooms in on opt for key concerns relating the improvement of the textual content, its historic background(s), the search for identification, and its afterlife in Jewish and Christian traditions.

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