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From the rivers of Babylon to the highlands of Judah collected studies on the Restoration period / by Japhet, Sara

Table of Contents: “…The supposed common authorship of Chronicles and Ezra/Nehemiah investigated anew -- Conquest and settlement in Chronicles -- Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 1 -- Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the background of the historical and religious tendencies of Ezra-Nehemiah : part 2 -- People and land in the Restoration period -- The historical reliability of Chronicles : the history of the problem and its place in biblical research -- Law and "the law" in Ezra-Nehemiah -- "History" and "literature" in the Persian period : the restoration of the Temple -- The relationship between Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah -- The Temple in the Restoration period : reality and ideology -- The Israelite legal and social reality as reflected in Chronicles : a case study -- Composition and chronology in the book of Ezra-Nehemiah -- The prohibition of the habitation of women : the Temple scroll's attitude toward sexual impurity and its biblical precedents -- The distribution of the priestly gifts according to a document of the Second Temple period -- Postexilic historiography : how and why? …”
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