Table Of ContentLIBRARY OF HEBREW BIBLE/
OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES
547
Formerly Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series
Editors
Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University
Andrew Mein, Westcott House, Cambridge
Founding Editors
David J. A. Clines, Philip R. Davies and David M. Gunn
Editorial Board
Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon,
Norman K. Gottwald, Gina Hens-Piazza, John Jarick, Andrew D. H. Mayes,
Carol Meyers, Patrick D. Miller, Yvonne Sherwood
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MIXED MARRIAGES
Intermarriage and Group Identity
in the Second Temple Period
Edited by
Christian Frevel
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xiii
INTRODUCTION:
THE DISCOURSE ON INTERMARRIAGE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
Christian Frevel 1
DEEPENING THE WATER:
FIRST STEPS TO A DIACHRONIC APPROACH
ON INTERMARRIAGE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
Christian Frevel and Benedikt J. Conczorowski 15
AN ETHNIC AFFAIR?
EZRA’S INTERMARRIAGE CRISIS AGAINST A CONTEXT
OF “SELF-ASCRIPTION” AND “ASCRIPTION OF OTHERS”
Katherine Southwood 46
THE QUESTION OF MIXED MARRIAGES
BETWEEN THE POLES OF DIASPORA AND HOMELAND:
OBSERVATIONS IN EZRA–NEHEMIAH
Ralf Rothenbusch 60
INTERMARRIAGE AND GROUP IDENTITY
IN THE EZRA TRADITION (EZRA 7–10 AND NEHEMIAH 8)
Juha Pakkala 78
ALL THE SAME AS EZRA? CONCEPTUAL DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN THE TEXTS ON INTERMARRIAGE IN GENESIS,
DEUTERONOMY 7 AND EZRA
Benedikt J. Conczorowski 89
UNDERSTANDING THE MIXED MARRIAGES
OF EZRA–NEHEMIAH IN THE LIGHT OF TEMPLE-BUILDING
AND THE BOOK’S CONCEPT OF JERUSALEM
Jan Clauss 109
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MIXED MARRIAGE IN TORAH NARRATIVES
Karen S. Winslow 132
FROM THE WELL IN MIDIAN TO THE BAAL OF PEOR:
DIFFERENT ATTITUDES TO MARRIAGE OF ISRAELITES
TO MIDIANITE WOMEN
Yonina Dor 150
“MARRIED INTO MOAB”: THE EXOGAMY PRACTICED
BY JUDAH AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN THE JUDAHITE LINEAGES
Gary N. Knoppers 170
THE QUESTION OF “MIXED MARRIAGES” (INTERMARRIAGE):
THE EXTRA-BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
Sebastian Grätz 192
MIXED MARRIAGES
AND THE HELLENISTIC RELIGIOUS REFORMS
Armin Lange 205
“SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE GENTILES”
(JUBILEES 22:16): INTERMARRIAGE IN THE BOOK OF JUBILEES
Christian Frevel 220
INTERMARRIAGE IN QUMRAN TEXTS:
THE LEGACY OF EZRA–NEHEMIAH
Hannah Harrington 251
MOSES’ CUSHITE MARRIAGE:
TORAH, ARTAPANUS, AND JOSEPHUS
Karen S. Winslow 280
FEMINIST- AND GENDER-CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON THE BIBLICAL IDEOLOGY OF INTERMARRIAGE
Claudia V. Camp 303
Index of References 316
Index of Authors 333
PREFACE
The present volume is the result of discussions on the topic of inter-
marriage during several international conferences since 2008. Its core
consists of papers presented at the SBL International Meeting 2009 in
Rome during two sessions on “Intermarriage and Group Identity in the
Persian and Hellenistic Period,” a discussion which was continued by the
SBL International Meeting in Tartu. Some additional papers have been
included to round off the present anthology.
I thank Claudia Camp for accepting this volume for the LHBOTS
series. Continuum’s Katie Gallof supervised the process patiently and
competently. Special thanks are dedicated to the DFG (German Research
Foundation) which supports a research project on intermarriage at the
Ruhr-University in Bochum. This volume presents results already arising
from this project.
I am particularly grateful to Benedikt Conczorowski, Bochum, who
dealt expertly with the organization, correction and formatting of this
volume, and who coordinated the assistance of Katharina Tautz, Florian
Mundt, Katharina Pyschny, Alina Golisch, and Jan Clauss, Bochum.
Jeffrey Rop, Pennsylvania, helped to revise the English of those studies
written by non-native English speakers with caution and understanding.
Many thanks to the whole team!
The volume is intended to provide a forum for the diversity of schol-
arly approaches to improve progress in mixed marriage research. Hope-
fully the current debate on Persian and Hellenistic period Yehud will
benefit from that, too.
Christian Frevel
Ruhr-University, Bochum
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ABBREVIATIONS
AB Anchor Bible
AfO Archiv für Orientforschung
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJSR Association for Jewish Studies Review
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch
ATSAT Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BBB Bonner Biblische Beiträge
BDB Brown, F., S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English
Lexicon of the Old Testament, Oxford, 1907
BEATAJ Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testament und des Antiken
Judentums
BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium
Bib Biblica
BibInt Biblical Interpretation
BibOr Biblica et Orientalia
BIOSCS Bulletin of the International Organization of Septuagint and
Cognate Studies
BKAT Biblischer Kommentar. Altes Testament
BN Biblische Notizen
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin
BWA(N)T Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten (und Neuen) Testament
BZABR Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechts-
geschichte
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary
CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly: Monograph Series
CBR Catholic Biblical Review
ConBOT Conitecta Biblica Old Testament Series
CPJ Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum
DMOA Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui
DNP Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike. Edited by H. Cancik and
H. Schneider. Stuttgart, 1996–
DSD Dead Sea Discoveries
EKKNT Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
