Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10 : an Anthropological Approach /
This book aims to bring a new way of understanding Ezra 9-10, which has become known as an intermarriage 'crisis', to the table. A number of issues, such as ethnicity, religious identity, purity, land, kinship, and migration, orbit around the central problem of intermarriage. These issues...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2012.
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| Series: | Oxford theological monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book aims to bring a new way of understanding Ezra 9-10, which has become known as an intermarriage 'crisis', to the table. A number of issues, such as ethnicity, religious identity, purity, land, kinship, and migration, orbit around the central problem of intermarriage. These issues are explored in terms of their modern treatment within anthropology, and this information is used to generate a more informed, sophisticated, understanding of the chapters within Ezra itself. The intermarriage crisis in Ezra is pivotal for our understanding of the postexilic community. As the evidence from an. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191613364 0191613363 1280594675 9781280594670 |