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This anthropological approach to the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its comparative approach notes that the community responded to its weak social boundaries in the same fashion as societies with similar social weaknesses. Janzen argues that the post-exilic community's decision to expel the foreign women in its midst was the direct result of the community's inability to enforce a common morality among its members. This anthropological approach to the expulsion shows how other societies with weak social moralities tend to react with witch-hunts, and it suggests that the expulsion in Ezra 9-10 was precisely such an activity. It concludes with an examination of the political and economic forces that could have eroded the social morality of the community.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Witch-hunts, Purity, and Social Boundaries
• Subtitle: The Expulsion of the Foreign Women in Ezra 9-10
• Author: David Janzen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781841272924
• ISBN: 1841272922
• ID: 04850610
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 412 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 240 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2002

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