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Ezra-Nehemiah / by Bob Becking.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Historical commentary on the Old TestamentPublication details: Leuven : Peeters, c2018Description: xxv, 330 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789042937697
  • 9042937696
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 296.09
LOC classification:
  • BS1355.53 .B434 2018
Back cover: The biblical books Ezra and Nehemiah are not highly regarded because of a painful point. In both books, a call can be found to put an end to marriages with foreign, or strange women. This commentary wants to understnad that summons in the context of the worldat that time and to show that other themes play a role in Ezra and Nehemiah. In the time after the return from the Babylonian exile Israel had to search for a new identity. It was found around the temple and from the Torah of Moses which was appropriated for a new era.
Item type: Reference Book
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xxv).

Back cover: The biblical books Ezra and Nehemiah are not highly regarded because of a painful point. In both books, a call can be found to put an end to marriages with foreign, or strange women. This commentary wants to understnad that summons in the context of the worldat that time and to show that other themes play a role in Ezra and Nehemiah. In the time after the return from the Babylonian exile Israel had to search for a new identity. It was found around the temple and from the Torah of Moses which was appropriated for a new era.