Japhet, Sara. <br/><br/>
From the rivers of Babylon to the highlands of Judah :  collected studies on the Restoration period / 
Sara Japhet. 
 - Winona Lake, Ind. :  Eisenbrauns,  2006. 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 469 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>The supposed common authorship of Chronicles and Ezra/Nehemiah investigated anew -- Conquest and settlement in Chronicles -- Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 1 -- Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 2 -- People and land in the Restoration period -- The historical reliability of Chronicles : the history of the problem and its place in biblical research -- Law and "the law" in Ezra-Nehemiah -- "History" and "literature" in the Persian period : the restoration of the Temple -- The relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah -- The Temple in the Restoration period : reality and ideology -- The Israelite legal and social reality as reflected in Chronicles : a case study -- Composition and chronology in the book of Ezra-Nehemiah -- The prohibition of the habitation of women : the Temple scroll's attitude toward sexual impurity and its biblical precedents -- The distribution of the priestly gifts according to a document of the Second Temple period -- Postexilic historiography : how and why? -- Exile and restoration in the Book of Chronicles -- Can the Persian period bear the burden? : reflections on the origins of biblical history -- Periodization between history and ideology : the neo-Babylonian period in biblical historiography -- Theodicy in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles -- Chronicles : a history -- Periodization between history and ideology II : chronology and ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah -- The concept of the "remnant" in the Restoration period : on the vocabulary of self-definition. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781575065755 1575065754 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Chronicles--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Nehemiah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Chronicles--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Ezra--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Nehemiah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews--History--Historiography.--586 B.C.-70 A.D.<br/>Judaism--History--Historiography.--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.<br/>RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1345.52  / .J37 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>222/.606