Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10

This book aims to bring a new way of understanding Ezra 9-10, which has become known as an intermarriage ''crisis'', to the table. A number of issues, such as ethnicity, religious identity, purity, land, kinship, and migration, orbit around the central problem of intermarriage. These issues are explored in terms of their modern treatment within anthropology, and this information is used to gener...