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OverviewThis book aims to bring a new way of understanding Ezra 9-10, which has become known as an intermarriage 'crisis', to the table. A number of issues, such as ethnicity, religious identity, purity, land, kinship, and migration, orbit around the central problem of intermarriage. These issues are explored in terms of their modern treatment within anthropology, and this information is used to generate a more informed, sophisticated, understanding of the chapters within Ezra itself. The intermarriage crisis in Ezra is pivotal for our understanding of the postexilic community. As the evidence from anthropology suggests, the social consciousness of ethnic identity and resistance to the idea of intermarriage which emerges from the text point to a deeper set of problems and concerns, most significantly, relating to the complexities of return-migration. In this study Katherine E. Southwood argues that the sense of identity which Ezra 9-10 presents is best understood by placing it within the larger context of a return migration community who seek to establish exilic boundaries when previous familiar structures of existence have been rendered obsolete by decades of existence outside the land. The complex view of ethnicity presented through the text may, therefore, reflect the ongoing ideology of a returning separatist group. The textualization of this group's tenets for Israelite identity, and for scriptural exegesis, facilitated its perpetuation by preserving a charged nexus of ideas around which the ethnic and religious identities of later communities could orbit. The multifaceted effects of return-migration may have given rise to an increased focus on ethnicity through ethnicity being realized in exile but only really being crystallized in the homeland. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Katherine E. Southwood (Lecturer in Biblical Studies, St Mary's University College, Twickenham and Kennicott Research Fellow, Oriental Institute, Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.583kg ISBN: 9780199644346ISBN 10: 0199644349 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 March 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction and Methods 2: Ethnicity 3: Ezra 4: Ethnicity in Ezra 9-10 5: Hybridity and Intermarriage 6: Hybridity and Return Migration 7: Conclusions BibliographyReviewsSouthwood's study offers a fresh perspective, particularly in so far as it offers an up-to-date, thorough and extremely useful discussion of theories of ethnicity and related issues. Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Journal of Jewish Studies Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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