Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Chapter 1 The Supposed Common Authorship of Chronicles and Ezra–Nehemiah Investigated Anew 1
5. Chapter 2 Conquest and Settlement in Chronicles 38
6. Chapter 3 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of Ezra–Nehemiah: Part 1 53
7. Chapter 4 Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel against the Background of the Historical and Religious Tendencies of Ezra–Nehemiah: Part 2 85
8. Chapter 5 People and Land in the Restoration Period 96
9. Chapter 6 The Historical Reliability of Chronicles: The History of the Problem and Its Place in Biblical Research 117
10. Chapter 7 Law and “The Law” in Ezra–Nehemiah 137
11. Chapter 8 “History” and “Literature” in the Persian Period: The Restoration of the Temple 152
12. Chapter 9 The Relationship between Chronicles and Ezra–Nehemiah 169
13. Chapter 10 The Temple in the Restoration Period: Reality and Ideology 183
14. Chapter 11 The Israelite Legal and Social Reality as Reflected in Chronicles: A Case Study 233
15. Chapter 12 Composition and Chronology in the Book of Ezra–Nehemiah 245
16. Chapter 13 The Prohibition of the Habitation of Women: The Temple Scroll’s Attitude toward Sexual Impurity and Its Biblical Precedents 268
17. Chapter 14 The Distribution of the Priestly Gifts according to a Document of the Second Temple Period 289
18. Chapter 15 Postexilic Historiography: How and Why? 307
19. Chapter 16 Exile and Restoration in the Book of Chronicles 331
20. Chapter 17 Can the Persian Period Bear the Burden? Reflections on the Origins of Biblical History 342
21. Chapter 18 Periodization between History and Ideology: The Neo-Babylonian Period in Biblical Historiography 353
22. Chapter 19 Theodicy in Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles 367
23. Chapter 20 Chronicles: A History 399
24. Chapter 21 Periodization between History and Ideology II: Chronology and Ideology in Ezra–Nehemiah 416
25. Chapter 22 The Concept of the “Remnant” in the Restoration Period: On the Vocabulary of Self-Definition 432
26. Indexes 451