Thesiss

Scholars such as C. Westermann, J. Blenkinsopp, J. Muilenburg, B. Childs, and C. Seitz have argued that the term "Zion/Jerusalem" in Isaiah 40–55 has a double meaning, referring to I) the people in Babylonian exile, and 2) the physical city in Judah. Recently, C. Maier and L. Ti…

This dissertation examines how Ezra-Nehemiah (EN) and Isaiah 56-66 (TI) use identity markers to redefine Judean identity in the poly-ethnic context of Persian-period Yehud/Judah by employing socio-anthropological approaches to ethnicity, primarily Clifford Geertz's primordialism…