TY - BOOK AU - Kalimi,Isaac TI - New Perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah: History and Historiography, Text, Literature, and Interpretation SN - 9781575066691 AV - BS1355.52 -- .N49 2012eb U1 - 222/.706 PY - 2012/// CY - Winona Lake PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Bible. -- O.T. -- Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Bible. -- O.T. -- Nehemiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- A List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- In the Persian Period: New Perspectives on Ezra-Nehemiah -- Part One History and Historiography -- Ezra's Use of Documents in the Context of Hellenistic Rules of Rhetoric -- What Was Nehemiah Up To? Looking for Models for Nehemiah's Polity -- Nehemiah: Subject of the Empire, Subject of Writing -- Nehemiah as a "Court Jew" -- Nehemiah 3: Sources, Composition, and Purpose -- On Nehemiah's City Wall and the Size of Jerusalem during the Persian Period: An Archaeologist's View -- The Real History: The Theological Ideas behind Nehemiah's Wall -- Part Two Text, Literature, and Interpretation -- Hidden Treasure: The Unpublished Doublet Catchwords in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Where Did the Judahites, Benjaminites, and Levites Settle? Revisiting the Text of Nehemiah 11:25-36 MT and LXX -- The Census List in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7: A Suggestion -- Nehemiah's Request on Behalf of Jerusalem -- Prayer as Rhetoric in the Book of Nehemiah -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3155643 ER -