19 others in the registry answer to the name Maaseiah. Every Maaseiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 10:18
- last named
- Ezra 10:18
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Maaseiah?
Maaseiah was a priest who was found to have married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra (Ezr.10.18). After the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon, Ezra, a priest and scribe, led a religious reform to purify the community and restore adherence to the Law of Moses (Ezr.7-10). One of the issues addressed in this reform was the problem of intermarriage with foreign women, which was seen as a violation of God's commandments (Deut 7.3-4). Maaseiah was among the priests who had taken foreign wives, and he is listed along with others who pledged to put away their wives and offer a ram as a guilt offering (Ezr.10.18-19). This event highlights the importance of maintaining religious purity and the challenges faced by the Jewish community in the post-exilic period. The inclusion of priests among those who had married foreign women underscores the pervasive nature of the problem and the need for spiritual leadership in the restoration of the community.
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Direct connections
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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The pattern
Where Maaseiah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1).
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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