Levites, Holiness and Late Achaemenid / Early Hellenistic Literature Formation: Where does Ezra-Nehemiah fit into the Discourse?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Abbreviations X
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 Consonance and Dissonance
7. The Book of Chronicles through the Ages: A Cinderella or a Sleeping Beauty? 15
8. I Consonance, Continuity, and Mutual Influence
9. Theocratic Reworking in the Pentateuch 53
10. Numbers and Chronicles: Close Relatives 2 79
11. נפשׁשׁ אדם and the Associations of 1 Chronicles 5 in the Hebrew Bible 108
12. II Dissonance, Discontinuity, and Alteration
13. The High Priest in Chronicles and in the Priestly Traditions of the Pentateuch 127
14. The Tribes of Israel in Ezekiel and Chronicles 158
15. Sacrifices in Chronicles: How Priestly Are They? 173
16. Part 2 Interpreting the Consonance and Dissonance
17. III Inclusive Reception and Creative Interpretation
18. Scribes in the Post-Exilic Temple: A Social Perspective 201
19. Atonement, Sacred Space and Ritual Time: The Chronicler as Reader of Priestly Pentateuchal Narrative 221
20. Grundgeschichte und Chronik – Kontinuität und Diskontinuität in Altisraels Geschichtsschreibung 244
21. Conversational Implicatures in the Book of Chronicles 257
22. Levites of Memory in Chronicles and Some Considerations about Historical Levites in Late-Persian Yehud 281
23. IV Ideological Conflicts and Scribal Debates
24. Genealogies as Tools: The Case of P and Chronicles 307
25. David in the role of a second Moses – The revelation of the temple-model (tabnît) in 1 Chronicles 28 322
26. The righteousness of the Levites in Chronicles and Ezekiel 337
27. The Levites and Idolatry: A Scribal Debate in Ezekiel 44 and Chronicles 348
28. V Ezra-Nehemiah: Between P and Chronicles
29. The Role of Priests and Levites in the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah: Some Points for Consideration 377
30. Levites, Holiness and Late Achaemenid / Early Hellenistic Literature Formation: Where does Ezra-Nehemiah fit into the Discourse? 391
31. Index of Sources 417
32. Index of Modern Authors 421
33. Subject Index 423