Building an Altar Despite Animosity: A Literary Defense of the Concessive Reading of Ezra 3:3a
A common scholarly understanding is that the first group of returnees in Ezra 3:3a built an altar "because they were in dread of the neighboring peoples." I find such a reading to be unlikely for three reasons. First, a study of Ezra 3:3a reveals that accepting the common understanding gen...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
2020
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 82, Issue: 1, Pages: 38-47 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Ezra 3,3
/ Altars
B Nehemiah / Ex-prisoners of war |
IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
Further subjects: | B
returnees
B Altars in the Bible B BIBLE; History of Biblical events B Bible. Nehemiah B Bible. Ezra B Ezra-Nehemiah B altar building B BIBLE. Old Testament; Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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