The positive role of shame for post-exilic returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah

Kang, Bin
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Title The positive role of shame for post-exilic returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah.
Host Item Old Testament Essays 33,2 (2020) 250-265
Description While shame is often cast in a negative light as a response accompanied by destructive forces in modern culture, this article examines a different phenomenon and argues that shame plays an important positive role for post-exilic returnees in Ezra/Nehemiah. Shame can be progressive and edifying if it is oriented in the right direction. This article surveys key shame terms in Ezra/Nehemiah by examining ”•—“ I in Ezra 8:22, ”•—“ I and •–– in Ezra 9:6-7, •—–• in Neh 1:3
2:17 and ”••• in Neh 3:36 (Eng. 4:4) for their semantics and concludes that shame plays a positive role in social control for the post-exilic returnees. Shame, in each of these cases, motivated the people of God not for bad but for good
it contributed to the rebuilding of the temple of the Lord, the rebuilding of the wall, and the restoration of a holy people to the Lord in the midst of fierce opposition.
Language English
National Library system number 997010400256005171
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