The Positive Value of Shame for Post-exilic Returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah
While shame is often cast in a negative light as a response accompanied by destructive forces in modern culture, this article examines a different phenomenon and argues that shame plays an important positive role for post-exilic returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah. Shame can be progressive and edifying if it...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 250-265 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ezra, Biblical person
/ Nehemiah Biblical character
/ Bible. Ezra 9,6-7
/ bôsh
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bibel. Nehemia, 1,3
B Bibel. Nehemia, 3,36 B Bibel. Nehemia, 2,17 B Bibel. Esra, 8,22 B klm B Booza |
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| Summary: | While shame is often cast in a negative light as a response accompanied by destructive forces in modern culture, this article examines a different phenomenon and argues that shame plays an important positive role for post-exilic returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah. Shame can be progressive and edifying if it is oriented in the right direction.This article surveys key shame terms in Ezra/Nehemiah by examining בושׁ I in Ezra 8:22, בושׁ I and כלם in Ezra 9:6-7, חרפה in Neh 1:3; 2:17 and בוזה in Neh 3:36 (Eng. 4:4) for their semantics and concludes that shame plays a positive role in social control for the post-exilic returnees. Shame, in each of these cases, motivated the people of God not for bad but for good; it contributed to the rebuilding of the temple of the Lord, the rebuilding of the wall, and the restoration of a holy people to the Lord in the midst of fierce opposition. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17159/2312-3621/2020/v33n2a6 |