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Culled from various books, journals, and festscrifts, the most important essays by Sara Japhet on the biblical restoration period and the books of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles appear in this accessible collection. Japhet, who is Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received the Israel Prize for biblical scholarship in 2004, has been a leading scholar on these topics for more than 30 years. Included here are studies on the question of common authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles, the temple during the restoration period, the use of the law in Ezra-Nehemiah, postexilic historiography, the “remnant” and self-definition during the restoration period, the historical reliability of Chronicles, and conquest and settlement in Chronicles. Scholars and students with an interest in the history, historiography, and theology of the restoration period, and in the interpretation of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles will want to own this compendium of valuable essays.

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The aim of this study is to examine the speeches given to leading characters in the Books of Chronicles, including those which formed the basis of Gerhard von Rad's book The Levitical Sermon in the Books of Chronicles. These are compared with similar material in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah and in the post-exilic prophets. It is Dr Mason's contention that recurring themes and homiletical devices suggest that these 'addresses' (while not to be classified as 'Sermons') do reveal something of the exegetical and teaching methods employed in the Second Temple period, which are here echoed. By studying the contents and aims of this preaching, the author tries to clarify the process by which pre-exilic Davidic Yahwism became the living faith of the post-exilic community in the challenging circumstances of the Persian and Greek periods through the careful reinterpretation of earlier scriptural material.

Judaism --- Preaching --- Christian preaching --- Homiletics --- Speaking --- Pastoral theology --- Public speaking --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- History --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Bible. --- Esdras (Book 2, Vulgate) --- Nehemiah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Neḥemyah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Book of the twelve Minor Prophets (Books of the Old Testament) --- Minor Prophets (Books of the Old Testament) --- Tere ʻaśar (Books of the Old Testament) --- Twelve Prophets (Books of the Old Testament) --- Esdras B --- Esdras (Book 1, Vulgate) --- Esra (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ezra (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chronicles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Divre ha-yamim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Paralipomenon (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yŏktae kisŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yŏktaegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chronikbuch (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Biblical teaching