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Judaism: The First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most studies of how early Judaism related to the non-Jewish world and how others perceived it start no earlier than the Hellenistic period. Joseph Blenkinsopp argues that we must go further back, to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and its temple and the liquidation of the political and religious infrastructure—monarchy, priesthood, scribalism, prophecy—which had sustained the Judean state...

who hold fast to my covenant, them will I bring to my holy mountain, I will give them joy in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be welcome on my altar. These foreigners, who have “joined themselves to (the religion of) Yahweh” but are living in fearful anticipation of being expelled from the community, are assured of their good standing “in my house and within my walls” (Isa 56:5), that is, as participants in the temple cult (Yahweh’s house) and in the civic life of the
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