The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9-10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited
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.
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Main Author: | Venter,Pieter M. |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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University of Pretoria
2018
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222018000400001 |
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