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Was 1 Esdras first? :

Was 1 Esdras first? : an investigation into the priority and nature of 1 Esdras / Was One Esdras first? edited by Lisbeth S. Fried. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2011. - xii, 287 p. ; 23 cm. - Society of Biblical Literature : ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 7 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and indexes.

Lower criticism and higher criticism : the case of 1 Esdras / Deirdre N. Fulton and Gary N. Knoppers -- Chicken or egg? : which came first, 1 Esdras or Ezra/Nehemiah? / Lester L. Grabbe -- The relationship between Ezra/Nehemiah and 1 Esdras / Adrian Schenker -- The story of the three youths and the composition of 1 Esdras / Bob Becking -- The second year of Darius / Kristin De Troyer -- Why the story of the three youths in 1 Esdras? / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Why 1 Esdras is probably not an early version of the Ezra/Nehemiah tradition / Juha Pakkala -- Ancient composition patterns mirrored in 1 Esdras and the priority of the canonical composition type / Zipora Talshir -- Literary questions between Ezra, Nehemiah, and 1 Esdras / James C. VanderKam -- Remember Nehemiah : 1 Esdras and the damnatio memoriae Nehemiae / Jacob L. Wright -- Articles investigating the nature of 1 Esdras -- The image of the king(s) in 1 Esdras / Sebastian Grt̜z -- Darius' court and the guardsmen's debate : Hellenistic Greek elements in 1 Esdras / Paul B. Harvey, Jr. -- Cyclical time and catalogues : the construction of meaning in 1 Esdras / Sylvie Honigman -- Esdras : its genre, literary form, and goals / Sara Japhet -- The rendering of 2 Chronicles 35/36 in 1 Esdras / Ralph W. Klein -- Esdras as rewritten Bible? / H.G.M. Williamson.

9781589835443 (paper binding : alk. paper) 9781589835450 (electronic format)

2011008515


Bible.--Apocrypha.--Esdras, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Congresses.

BS1715.52 / .W37 2011

229/.106

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