Language:
English
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2015) 27 pp.
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Diseases in the Bible
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Leprosy in the Bible
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P document (Biblical criticism)
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Ritual History To 333 B.C.
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Polemics in the Bible
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Pollution Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Purity, Ritual Biblical teaching
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Emar (Extinct city) Religion
Abstract:
The problem of foreign marriages occurs in several places in the Hebrew Bible and these occurrences show both differences and commonalities.1 In this paper I will not engage in a detailed exege- sis of any of these references; rather, I am aiming at identifying the underlying political concepts that may have induced the respective texts, namely the concept of citizenship, and in connection with that, the notion of membership in the popular assembly, and the question of inheritance of membership. A comparison with texts from ancient Greece which also deal with the problem of foreign marriages will prove to be helpful in this investigation.
DOI:
10.5508/jhs.2012.v12.a6
URL:
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