Jewish Documents of the Time of Ezra
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Overview
Translated from Aramaic into English, this book takes important but difficult Scripture and makes it more accessible. It explores the reconstructive period of Ezra and Nehemiah and the surrounding religious community. The reconstruction of Judaism (and therefore the modern development of it) was greatly helped and strengthened by the good-will of the Persian kings, which began with King Cyrus’ edict. The work of Ezra and Nehemiah could not have been successful under a hostile government. The author explores the relationship of the Jews to the surrounding inhabitants, and even other Jews living in different regions. He discusses their relationship to marriage and divorce, inheriting property, and temple contributions. “It was in the shock of Ezra’s reforms that modern Judaism was born, and the system of morality in which Christianity was afterward planted. As the rabbis said, ‘the Law was forgotten, and Ezra restored it.’ ”
- Title: Jewish Documents of the Time of Ezra
- Author: Arthur Ernest Cowley
- Series: Translations of Early Documents: Series I: Palestinian Jewish Texts (Pre-Rabbinic)
- Publishers: SPCK, Macmillan Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1919
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jews › History--To 70 A.D; Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri); Achaemenian inscriptions; Old Persian inscriptions; Elephantine (Egypt) › Antiquities; Aswān (Egypt)
- Resource ID: LLS:JWSHDCMNTSTMZRA
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2020-08-24T05:50:37Z