Böcker av Dr David (Durham University Janzen

This anthropological study of 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.

Traces the narrative of the exilic author of the "Deuteronomistic History", a narrative that provides an explanation for the trauma that the Judean community in Babylon suffered. This book argues that we can trace a single, coherent narrative throughout the History that is an attempt to explain to its original readers why the exile occurred.