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- Title
The dissolving of marriages in Ezra 9-10 and Nehemiah 13 revisited.
- Authors
Venter, Pieter M.
- Abstract
The 'harsh' decision in Ezra 10:1-44 and Nehemiah 13:23-31 to terminate marriages with 'foreign' women falls strange on modern ears. This article reads these sections against the background of identity formation in Ezra-Nehemiah. It is proposed that these two passages should be studied on more than just one level. It states that synchronic, literary-redactional and socio-historical methods are to be combined in an effort to better understand why marriages were dissolved in Ezra and Nehemiah.
- Subjects
BIBLICAL teachings on divorce; BIBLE. Ezra; BIBLE. Nehemiah; CHRISTIANITY &; marriage; SOCIOHISTORICAL analysis; MARRIAGE annulment
- Publication
Hervormde Teologiese Studies, 2018, Vol 74, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0259-9422
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4102/hts.v74i4.4854