https://jdavidstark.com/tags/p.-m.-venter/ Recent content in P.-M.-Venter on J. David Stark https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- 0.154.5 en J. David Stark Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:54:31 +0000 https://jdavidstark.com/slaves-at-home/ Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:54:31 +0000 http://ntinterpretation.wordpress.com/?p=11216 <p>Ezra and Nehemiah each provide their own distinct reports of the Jews’ return from Babylonian exile. Even if the portrayal of this return as a “second exodus” is not a particular, literary concern in these books, <a href = "/the-resurrection-of-the-son-of-god/#sdfootnote1sym" >1</a> the narrative’s inclusion of elements like captivity, release, land resettlement, and covenant establishment certainly echo important features in the narrative of Israel’s exodus from Egypt. <a href = "/the-resurrection-of-the-son-of-god/#sdfootnote2sym" >2</a> Even so, Ezra and Nehemiah include in their portraits of the people’s experience of some “reviving” (מחיה) a stroke in which the people also found themselves still to be slaves ( <a href = "http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezr9.8-9" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >Ezra 9:8–9</a>; cf. <a href = "http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ne9.36" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >Neh 9:36</a>). <a href = "/the-resurrection-of-the-son-of-god/#sdfootnote3sym" >3</a></p>