Ezra-Nehemiah

Introduction/Reference

Narrative Texts: Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah - by Ralph W. Klein, Blackwell Companion to the Old Testament

Nehemiah 9-10: Structure and Significance - by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2001)
The Northern Origin of Nehemiah 9 - by G. A. Rendsburg, Biblica 72 (1991); abstract

Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 1 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 88-94

Literary and Ideological Aspects of Nehemiah 11 - by Oded Lipschits, Journal of Biblical Literature 121.3 (2002) 423-440

Partisipiale relatiefsinne in Esra, Nehemia en Kronieke - by W. C. van Wyk, Jr., Journal of Semitics 6.2 (1994); abstract

Geography and History in Herodotus and Ezra-Nehemiah - by Thomas B. Dozeman, Journal of Biblical Literature 122.3 (2003) 449-466
Was Nehemiah Contemporary with Ezra in 458 BC? - by Leslie McFall, Westminster Theological Journal 53 (1991) 263-293

The Force of the Text: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi's 'Ezra¡Nehemiah: From Text to Actuality' - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 1 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 351-69
The mbqr at Qumran, the episkopos in the Athenian Empire, and the meaning of lbqr)in Ezra 7:14: On the Relation of Ezra's Mission to the Persian Legal Project - by Richard C. Steiner, Journal of Biblical Interpretation 120.4 (2001) 623-646; Society of Biblical Literature membership required
Responding to Ezra: The Priests and the Foreign Wives - by Mary Douglas, Biblical Interpretation 10.1 (2002) 1-23; abstract publicly viewable, full text viewable by subscribers or for purchase

Bautch, Richard J., Developments in Genre between Post-Exilic Penitential Prayers and the Psalms of Communal Lament (SBL/Brill, 2003)
- Reviewed by Jacob Wright, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
- Reviewed by Daniel Falk, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
Boda, Mark J., Praying the Tradition: The Origin and Use of Tradition in Nehemiah 9 - reviewed by Bob Becking, Review of Biblical Literature
Grätz, Sebastian, Das Edikt des Artaxerxes: Eine Untersuchung zum religionspolitischen und historischen Umfeld von Esra 7,12-26 (de Gruyter, 2004) - reviewed by Armin Siedlecki, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
Larson, Knute and Kathy Dahlen, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (Broadman & Holman, 2005) - reviewed by Bob Becking, Review of Biblical Studies (2005)
Min, Kyung-Jin, The Levitical Authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah (Clark, 2004)
- Reviewed by Bob Becking, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
- Reviewed by Lester Grabbe, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
van Wijk-Bos, Johanna W. H., Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther (Westminster Bible Companion) - reviewed by John W. Wright, Review of Biblical Literature
Wright, Jacob L., Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers (de Gruyter, 2004) - reviewed by Tamara Eskenazi, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)

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