Ezra-Nehemiah

Deborah A. Appler, Terry Ann Smith, Amy-Jill Levine , Barbara E. Reid

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Liturgical Press
29 September 2025

Christian Churches & denominations; Old Testaments

Series: Wisdom Commentary Series

In this volume, Deborah Appler and Terry Ann Smith offer a sustained investigation and feminist critique that move beyond traditional historical and theological interpretations of Ezra-Nehemiah. Their intersectional analysis engages themes of gender, power, economics, and social justice. Tensions between group inclusion and exclusion are evident in Ezra-Nehemiah, and the authors bring attention to the complexities associated with identity formation and boundary-making for a repatriated community. Their volume amplifies often overlooked voices in the text and offers insight into how issues of faith, marginalization, and communal solidarity complicate what it means to ""come home."" Their collaborative analysis of Ezra-Nehemiah demonstrates how ancient and modern communities grapple with community formation and identity amidst ever-evolving social and cultural challenges.

By: Deborah A. Appler, Terry Ann Smith
Edited by: Barbara E. Reid
Volume editor: Amy-Jill Levine
Imprint: Liturgical Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780814681138
ISBN 10: 0814681131
Series: Wisdom Commentary Series
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 29 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Adult education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Deborah Ann Appler is professor emerita of Hebrew Bible at Moravian University School of Theology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, an ordained elder in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church, and an Earth Keeper for the UMC Board of Global Ministries. Her research, publications, and teaching seek to encourage conversations around community justice, especially as these issues appear in biblical texts and intersect with gender, sexuality, elder issues, and food justice. She participated in several archaeological excavations, including Jezreel, Megiddo, and Ramat Rachel to better understand the history and culture behind biblical texts. Terry Ann Smith is the associate dean of institutional assessment and associate professor of biblical studies at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her research interests and publications focus on inspections of the Hebrew Bible that expose normalized inequitable distributions of power and privilege as these intersect categories of ethnicity, class, and gender. As an ordained Baptist minister, she is particularly interested in contextualized socio-political readings of biblical texts that foster conversations which address the theological, practical, and ethical applications of the Bible by the church.

Reviews for Ezra-Nehemiah

""Deborah Ann Appler and Terry Ann Smith have taken the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, notorious for their historical, literary, and interpretive challenges and given us a reliable and insightful guide for readers of these books. Along with a cadre of supplementary commenters and their helpful insets they have provided both scholars and church readers alike with deeper understandings of the challenges faced by the returned community of Judean exiles and new appreciation for the courage and resourcefulness of leaders in this difficult period. But they have done so while also helping us understand difficult decisions made by these leaders that led to unfortunate consequences, and they help us to understand these choices but enable us to better avoid making similar mistaken judgments of our own."" Bruce C. Birch, dean and professor emeritus of biblical theology, Wesley Theological Seminary