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2J. B. Pritchard ed, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament ( Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1969), pp,315-316 .
3Norman K. Gottwald, The Politics of Ancient Israel ( Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), p.224.
4J. Blenkinsopp, "The Mission of Udjahorresnet and Those of Ezra and Nehemiah," Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 106 (1987), p.413.
5Lesler L. Grabbe, "What was Ezra's Mission?" Second Temple Studies. Vol, 2: Temple and Community in the Persian period, edited by Tamara C. Eskenasi & Kent H, Richards (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994). pp, 290 -291.
6J. Maxwell Miller & John H. Hayes, A History of Ancient israel and Judah, p.445.
7Gale Yee, Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible ( Minneapolis : Fortress, 2003 ), p. 141.
8Norman K. Gottwald, "The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 5", Concepts of Class in Ancient Israel, edited by Mark R. Sneed (Atlanta: Scholars, 1999), pp. 1 - 19.
9Berquist, Judaism in Persia's Shadow, p. 114.
10Harold C. Washington, "The Strange Woman of Proverbs 1 - 9 and Post - Exilic Judaean Society", Second Temple Studies, Vol. 2, p. 233.
