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Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10 - An Anthropological Approach (Hardcover)
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Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10 - An Anthropological Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theological Monographs
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This 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.
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