The place of non-Jews/foreigners in the early post-exilic Jewish community in Ezra and Nehemiah
The aims and objectives of this investigation were to find whether non-Jews or non-exiles related with the early post-exilic Jewish community in their religious life and communal living according to Ezra and Nehemiah; to discern the nature of such relationship; to discover the basis on which this re...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26852 Usue, E 2004, The place of non-Jews/foreigners in the early post-exilic Jewish community in Ezra and Nehemiah, MTh dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26852 > http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02052004-102606/ |
| Summary: | The aims and objectives of this investigation were to find whether non-Jews or non-exiles related with the early post-exilic Jewish community in their religious life and communal living according to Ezra and Nehemiah; to discern the nature of such relationship; to discover the basis on which this relationship was sustained; and to examine the text of Ezra-Nehemiah and see whether Ezra and Nehemiah exhibits exclusivity in their dealing with non-Jews or non-exiles as supposed by others (cf Williamson 1987:83). The inquiry reveals that the author(s) or editor(s) of the books of Ezra and Nehemiah re-interpreted certain passages from the Pentateuch in a peculiar way to support the exclusive religious and social reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah. Consequently, two viewpoints emerged from the text of Ezra and Nehemiah concerning non-exiles. The one is exclusive and the other is inclusive. The researcher contended that the inclusive perspective is the appropriate approach toward non-Jews as evidenced in the spirit of the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants as well as in the Deuteronomic-Deuteronomistic history. In other words, the Abrahamic covenant and certain passages from the Pentateuch and from the Deuteronomic-Deuteronomistic history provide a framework for a religious and communal relationship between the Israelites and or Jews and foreigners. === Dissertation (MTh (Old Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2005. === Old Testament Studies === unrestricted |
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