Between the Traditional and the Innovative

This article attempts to bring together the main threads of Ezra-Nehemiah research undertaken during the past 15 years, locating it in the larger framework of biblical studies and identifying possible fruitful avenues of future research. Areas covered in this article include the text and interpretation of Ezra-Nehemiah, current issues in the discussion of the history and material culture of the Persian period, the impetus of sociology and anthropology for the study of Ezra-Nehemiah and studies dealing with the theology/ideology and religion portrayed in Ezra-Nehemiah

Aesthetics · Art · Biblical studies · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Persian · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · History · Law · Philosophy

• Intermarriage and Impurity in Ancient Jewish Sources

  Open Access•Christine Hayes•Harvard Theological Review•1999

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• Judah in the Sixth Century B. C. E

  Avraham Faust•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•2003

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• Light on the Jewish State in Persian Times

  W F Albright•Bulletin of the American Schools…•1934

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• Africa Bible Commentary

  Christopher Byaruhanga•Exchange•2007

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• Purity Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah as a Tool to Reconstitute the Community

  Saul M Olyan, Saul Olyan•Journal for the Study of Judaism•2004

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• Archaeology and the List of Returnees in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah

  Israel Finkelstein•Palestine Exploration Quarterly•2008

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• The Silent Women of Yehud

  H Zlotnick-Sivan•Journal of Jewish Studies•2000

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• Uncovering Ancient Stones

  M P Maidman, Lewis M Hopfe•Journal of the American Oriental…•1996

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• Nehemiah as Cultural Revitalization

  Open Access•Kenneth D Tollefson, H G M Williamson•Journal for the Study of the Old…•1992

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• The History of Ancient Palestine from the Palaeolithic Period to Alexander's Conquest

  Nili S Fox, Gösta W Ahlström•The Jewish Quarterly Review•1996

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• Studying Ancient Israelite Ritual

  Open Access•Wesley Bergen, Wesley J Bergen•Religion Compass•2007

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