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The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited

2018; AOSIS; Volume: 74; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4102/hts.v74i4.4854

ISSN

2072-8050

Autores

Pieter M. Venter,

Tópico(s)

Mormonism, Religion, and History

Resumo

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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