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The Holy Seed Has Been Defiled - The Interethnic Marriage Dilemma in Ezra 9-10 (Hardcover, New)
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The Holy Seed Has Been Defiled - The Interethnic Marriage Dilemma in Ezra 9-10 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Hebrew Bible Monographs, 33
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In the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah, Ezra commands Yehudite men to put
away their foreign wives to avoid further defiling the 'holy seed'.
What is the meaning of this warning? Are Ezra's words to be
understood as a concern about race-mixing or is it emblematic of
some more complex set of problems prevalent in the fledgling
postexilic community? Ezra's words, with their seemingly racialized
thinking, have been influential in much political, religious and
popular culture in the USA. It has been a backdrop for constructing
racial reality for centuries, melding seemingly biblical ideologies
with accepted European Enlightenment-era ideas about racial
superiority and inferiority. Willa Johnson combines archaeological
data with social-scientific theory to argue for a new
interpretation. In this anthropological and narratological
analysis, Johnson views Ezra's edict in the light of ancient
Yehudite concerns over ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social
class following the return from exile. In this context, she argues,
the warning against intermarriage appears to be an effort to
reconstitute identity in the aftermath of the cataclysmic political
dominance by first the Babylonian and then the Persian empires.
This book represents a postmodern interdisciplinary approach to
understanding an ancient biblical socio-political situation. As
such, it offers fresh perspectives on ways that interpretations of
the Bible continue to reflect the ideologies of its interpreters.
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