The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited

HTS Theological Studies

 
 
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Title The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited
 
Creator Venter, Pieter M.
 
Subject — Ezra; Nehemiah; Foreign women; synchronic analysis; diachronic analysis; social scientific studies
Description The ‘harsh’ decision in Ezra 10:1–44 and Nehemiah 13:23–31 to terminate marriages with ‘foreign’ women falls strange on modern ears. This article reads these sections against the background of identity formation in Ezra-Nehemiah. It is proposed that these two passages should be studied on more than just one level. It states that synchronic, literary-redactional and socio-historical methods are to be combined in an effort to better understand why marriages were dissolved in Ezra and Nehemiah.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2018-02-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v74i4.4854
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 74, No 4 (2018); 13 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Ancient Near East — —
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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