Levitical Authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah

By Kyung-Jin Min

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 cooperation among social groups, and dissatisfaction with the religious status quo.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567082261
• ISBN13: 9780567082268
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"