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Original Research - Special Collection: Ignatius van Wyk Dedication
The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 74, No 4 | a4854 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v74i4.4854
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Submitted: 23 October 2017 | Published: 22 February 2018
Submitted: 23 October 2017 | Published: 22 February 2018
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Pieter M. Venter, Department of Old Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, South AfricaShare this article
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Ezra; Nehemiah; Foreign women; synchronic analysis; diachronic analysis; social scientific studies
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