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The crisis of Israelite religion : transformation of religious tradition in exilic and post-exilic times

The papers of an Utrecht Symposium on Exile and Return tackle the problems involved with a variety of methods and reading strategies. How did people religiously cope with the changed and shifting situation? What do we really know about the period under consideration?
Print Book, English, 1999
Brill, Leiden, 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789004114968, 9004114963
41002801
Continuity and discontinuity after the exile: some introductory remarks / B. Becking
Israel's historical reality after the exile / L.L. Grabbe
Exile and restoration in the Book of Chronicles / S. Japhet
Niedergang und Neuanfang: Die Haltung der Schlussredaktion des deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerkes zu den wichtigsten Fragen ihrer Zeit / W. Dietrich
In the Babylonian exile with J: between judgment in Ezekiel and salvation in second Isaiah / J. van Seters
Second Isaiah's coping with the religious crisis: reading Isaiah 40 and 55 / M.C.A. Korpel
The valley of dry bones: coping with the reality of the exile in the Book of Ezekiel / M. Dijkstra
'Powerful Persianisms' in Glyptic iconography of Persian period Palestine / C. Uehlinger
Paritätische Modelle von männlich und weiblich am Anfang und Ende der Priesterschriftlichen Schöpfungserzählung (Gen. 1:1-2:4a) / H. Schüngel-Straumann
Readings in Haggai: from the prophet to the completed book, a changing message in changing times / J.E. Tollington. 'Indeed, servants we are': Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9 and 2 Chronicles 12 compared / H.W.M. van Grol
Religio-Historical aspects of the 'early post-exilic' period / H. Niehr
Religion in Palestine in the Assyrian and Persian periods / E. Stern
Continuity and community: the belief system of the Book of Ezra / B. Becking
The belief system of the book of Nehemiah / H.G.M. Williamson
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