TY - BOOK ID - 7004271 TI - The levitical authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah PY - 2004 VL - 409 SN - 0567082261 9780567082268 PB - London Clark DB - UniCat KW - Levites. KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Bible. O.T. Ezra -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Bible. O.T. Nehemiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Levites KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Judaism KW - 222.7 KW - Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia KW - Esdras (Book 2, Vulgate) KW - Nehemiah (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Neḥemyah (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Esdras B KW - Esdras (Book 1, Vulgate) KW - Esra (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Ezra (Book of the Old Testament) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7004271 AB - The study of Ezra-Nehemiah has been revolutionized in recent years by a growing rejection of the long-established belief that it was composed as part of the Chronicler's work. That shift in scholarly paradigms has re-opened many questions of origin and purpose, and this thesis attempts to establish an answer to the most important of these: the question of authorship. Here, Kyungjin Min argues that Ezra-Nehemiah most likely originated in a Levitical group that received Persian backing during the late-fifth century BCE and that valued the ideologies of decentralization of power, unity and cooper ER -