TY - BOOK ID - 33091334 TI - Figures of Ezra AU - Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas AU - Hirschberger, Veronika AU - Nicklas, Tobias AU - Peeters PY - 2018 VL - 13 SN - 9789042935303 9042935308 PB - Leuven Peeters DB - UniCat KW - 222.7 KW - 222.7 Chroniques. Esdras. Nehemie KW - 222.7 Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia KW - Chroniques. Esdras. Nehemie KW - Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia KW - Ezra KW - Esdra KW - Esdras KW - Esras KW - Esrei KW - Esri KW - Ezdras KW - Ezrah KW - Ezri KW - Iezraa KW - ʻUzayr KW - עזרא KW - Bible. KW - Apocrypha KW - Esdras B KW - Esdras (Book 1, Vulgate) KW - Esra (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Ezra (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Ezra, KW - Ezra - (Biblical figure) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33091334 AB - "This book is one of the first modern collections of studies on important aspects of the Ezra figure that combines both Jewish and Christian traditions. The volume opens with a study of Ezra in rabbinic literature and continues with four chapters on 4 Ezra, discussing its dimensions of time, future agents and visionary practices as well as reminiscences of 4 Ezra in the Armenian Script of the Lord's Infancy. The following chapters study the relationship of 4, 5 and 6 Ezra, the nature of 5 Ezra and dissimulation strategies in 6 Ezra. The last chapters concentrate on the important discovery in 1984 of a longer version of the Vision of Ezra. Studies of its place, date, tour of hell as well as its scheme of atonements make a start with integrating this text in the study of early Christianity. Analyses of the Apocalypse of Sedrach and of anxieties of discontinuity in the Testament of Abraham and in Ezra traditions further contribute to a better understanding of this text. The final chapter offers the first German translation of this exciting discovery. As has become customary, the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography and detailed index."--Publisher's website. ER -