Old Testament Text - Ezra and Nehemiah

This course is a linguistic, exegetical, critical, and literary study of the main historical sources relating to the return of Jews from the Babylonian exile. Attention will be given to the historical, Page 551 political, economic, and religious conditions that Jewish officials and religious leaders faced while they restructured and strengthened Judah as a client state of Persia, rebuilt the temple and reestablished the cultus, and instructed the people in the Torah.

Credits

3 credits

Course Code

OT 9322