Witch-hunts, purity and social boundaries : the expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10
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Witch-hunts, purity and social boundaries : the expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10
（Journal for the study of the Old Testament : supplement series, 350）
Sheffield Academic Press, 2002
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliography (p.[164]-172) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthropological approach to the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its comparative approach notes that the community responded to its weak social boundaries in the same fashion as societies with similar social weaknesses. Janzen argues that the post-exilic community's decision to expel the foreign women in its midst was the direct result of the community's inability to enforce a common morality among its members. This anthropological approach to the expulsion shows how other societies with weak social moralities tend to react with witch-hunts, and it suggests that the expulsion in Ezra 9-10 was precisely such an activity. It concludes with an examination of the political and economic forces that could have eroded the social morality of the community.
Table of Contents
- The history of biblical theology and its text(s)
- an outline of the canonical approach of Brevard S. Childs
- the hermeneutics of the canonical approach reconsidered
- preliminaries to a canonical exegesis of the "Sodom narrative" (Genesis 18-19)
- a canonical exegesis of the "Sodom narrative", part 1 - Genesis 18
- a canonical exegesis of the "Sodom narrative", part 2 - Genesis 19
- conclusion - a critical appraisal of the canonical approach.
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