Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook (2022-2023)
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 261-273
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Intermarriage in the Bible
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Jewish law Biblical teaching
Abstract:
The essay deals with Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s struggle against marriage with foreign women (Ezra 9‒10; Neh 13:23‒26). It begins with a short introduction to this unprecedented initiative, and then provides a possible explanation of the campaign and its central place at the end of the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, which contrasts with the lack of any description of its actual outcome The focus of the essay is on the footprints of this separatist and exclusive tendency in Jewish law, thought and ritual. They are indeed scarce and few, probably due to the institution of the conversion process, which made Ezra-Nehemiah superfluous.
DOI:
10.1515/9783111337807-016
URL:
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