The primary purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Book of Nehemiah stands as a unified independent literary work with specific themes and a definitive message. A literary analysis of Nehemiah will show that the book stands alone as a historical narrative. The book, as…
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The previous research on the stamped Yehud jar corpus has concentrated upon the deciphering of legends, the dating, and the comparing of readings with those of other stamp varieties. Scholars have also utilized selected unique specimens, particularly the rare Yehud-Name, for the…
This study gives a description of the nature of the ideologies of the groups and forces that shaped Persian Judah (Yehud) by offering a critique of the rhetoric they produced, namely the separatist rhetoric in Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 13. Many scholars argue that during the mid-fi…
The first-person Hebrew narrative of the Persian courtier sent to be governor of Judah, the "Nehemiah Memorial" (or NM: Neh 1-2:20; 3:33-7:3; 13:4-31), is a crucial text for understanding how elements within ancient Judaism conceived of their relationship to the Persian Achaemen…
Ezra-Nehemiah appears as a single book in the Jewish canonical tradition, and scholarly consensus since Tamara Cohn Eskenazi's In an Age of Prose has likewise leaned toward treating the book as a literary and ideological unity. I challenge this consensus. I argue that Ezra and N…
This dissertation is an examination of the MT and LXX versions of Nehemiah 11-12. Nehemiah 11-12 includes material that focuses on the people who settled in Jerusalem, a catalog of settlements around the region of Judah, and lists of temple personnel in Jerusalem. These chapters…
The Bible's attitudes toward Moabites are more varied than those expressed toward any other group. By studying biblical portrayals of Moab, this study aims to describe 1) how biblical authors imagine encounters with foreignness, 2) how texts about foreigners construct in-group i…
This dissertation explores nineteen occasions where Ezra–Nehemiah uses the language of Deuteronomy, either through allusion or quotation. The study considers how the law contributed to the identity of the post-exilic community, especially in relation to their ongoing exile while…
This project explores the onset of pastor – church relationships in a Black Church context and how a re-signing of each's identity establishes a healthy partnership foundation. Considering the absence of resources to guide the initial term of pastor-church partnerships, the proj…