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| Titre : | Ezra - Nehemiah : Introduction, Translation, and Notes |
| Auteurs : | Jacob M. Myers, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 3rd printing |
| Editeur : | New York [USA] : Doubleday, 1965 |
| Collection : | The Anchor Bible, num. 14 |
| Format : | lxxxiii + 269 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Ezra and Nehemiah continue the spiritual history of Jerusalem begun in I & II Chronicles; they relate the return of the Jewish people to its home from exile in Babylonia and the revitalization of the Jewish religion. Two remarkable personalities —with strikingly different approaches to the same objective— played dominant roles in this rebuilding of a nation. Ezra, the learned, pious, scribal priest, known among his contemporaries as "the second Moses,” was the architect of spiritual reform. Nehemiah, the forceful, shrewd, resourceful administrator, was the master international politician. In the words of Jacob M. Myers, "while Nehemiah tended to the body of Judaism, Ezra ministered to its soul.”
The importance of Ezra and Nehemiah is, however, not only historical. For with I & II Chronicles, believed to be written by the same author, Ezra and Nehemiah comprise an exceedingly complex jigsaw puzzle of parallels, direct quotes, and retellings, in some cases, of the same stories—all of which is, perhaps, more absorbing for the scholar than for the layman. But, a study of Ezra and Nehemiah —and the conclusions to which it leads— is crucial to an understanding of who wrote which portions of the Bible, how and when they came to be written, and what that understanding tells us ultimately about how the Bible, bit by bit over a period of almost a thousand years, came into being. Jacob M. Myers has approached this enormous task of cataloguing, classifying, and identifying with staggering meticulousness. Every relationship —of texts, personages, styles— is traced, and current theories are carefully weighed; every historical clue is tracked down for what it will yield in the way of verifiable hypotheses. The result is a volume that is as comprehensive and as authoritative as possible at the present time. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - Principal Abbreviations INTRODUCTION - History: The Jews in the Exilic Period / The Early Returns - Literary and Historical Order: The Present Order of Ezra-Nehemiah / Attempts to Rearrange the Literary Materials of Ezra-Nehemiah / The Sources / The Use of the Sources - The Achievements of Nehemiah and Ezra: Nehemiah / Ezra - Text and Related Matters: The Hebrew Text / The Versions - Authorship and Date - Evaluation of Ezra and Nehemiah: Ezra / Nehemiah - Selected Bibliography EZRA NEHEMIAH APPENDIXES - I. Comparison of Nehemiah vii and Ezra ii (I Esdras v) - II. Comparison of Lists - III. Levitical Families - Index of Place and Personal Names - Key to the Text |
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