The Book That Changed: Narratives of Ezran Authorship as Late Antique Biblical Criticism

The historiography of biblical criticism typically frames modern critical insights about the composite nature of the biblical text as a break with traditional Jewish and Christian modes of engaging with the Bible. This article seeks to demonstrate, however, that one can find critical themes in even...

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subjects Allusion
Ambiguity
Analysis
Apocrypha
Authenticity
Authorship
Bible
Biblical hermeneutics
Biblical studies
British & Irish literature
Christian-Jewish relations
Christianity
Criticism and interpretation
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Ezra
Fate
Hegemony
Historical text analysis
Historiography
History
Irish literature
Jewish people
Literary canon
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary translation
Logic
Narrative techniques
Narrative theme
Narratives
New Zealand literature
Phenomenology
Religious literature
Scribes
Tradition (Religion)
Traditions
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