A Colonized People
: Persian hegemony, hybridity , and community identity in Ezra-Nehemiah

The article draws on Achaemenid royal inscriptions in a postcolonial investigation of Ezra-Nehemiah’s portrayal of the community of immigrants from Babylon. The book presents the community’s identity as a hybrid of the way imperial hegemony portrays the colonized who live in the Persian Empire and o...

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Published in:Biblical interpretation
Main Author: Janzen, David 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Biblical interpretation
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Ezra-Nehemiah
 postcolonialism
 Persian Empire
 Achaemenid inscriptions

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