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Biblical Text in Rabbinic Context

The Book of Chronicles in the Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash


This study investigates how the Rabbis handled the Book of Chronicles, highlighting issues including intermarriage. While genealogical lists contain intermarriage in Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah is generally opposed. Ezra did compose some of the lists and intermarriage was acceptable only under certain conditions.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-0107-4
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Publication Status: In Print
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1060
Publication Date: Jan 15,2013
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 23
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0107-4
$35.00

This study investigates how the Rabbis handled the Book of Chronicles. Among several issues, it shows that the Rabbis tried to reconcile the intermarriages mentioned in genealogical lists in Chronicles with the opposition to intermarriage stated in Ezra-Nehemiah. This is apparent because the baraita quoted in b. B. Bat. 15a and the Gemara following it attribute the composition of Chronicles to Ezra and Nehemiah. Ezra composed at least some of the lists, including the intermarriages mentioned there, because those intermarriages were acceptable under certain conditions.

This study investigates how the Rabbis handled the Book of Chronicles. Among several issues, it shows that the Rabbis tried to reconcile the intermarriages mentioned in genealogical lists in Chronicles with the opposition to intermarriage stated in Ezra-Nehemiah. This is apparent because the baraita quoted in b. B. Bat. 15a and the Gemara following it attribute the composition of Chronicles to Ezra and Nehemiah. Ezra composed at least some of the lists, including the intermarriages mentioned there, because those intermarriages were acceptable under certain conditions.

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Isaac Kalimi

  • Biblical Text in Rabbinic Context (page 5)
  • Unity, Authorship and the Relationship of Chronicles to Ezra-nehemiah (page 7)
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