Rebuilding Identity The Nehemiah-Memoir and its Earliest Readers

"Die Arbeit besticht durch gute Beobachtungen, eine klare Argumentation und ein überzeugendes Gesamtbild, das zudem gewichtige Konsequenzen für die frühe 'Second Temple Period' hat."
Uwe Becker in: ZAW 1/2006

"Wright's Rebuilding Identity promises a great deal and delivers even more. [...] Its scholarly sophistication is coupled with elegant formulation as Wright illustrates how the story of Nehemiah has grown into the drama of the court-Jew who discovers his own identity in a foreign land and then moves to redirect the identity and destiny of his people."

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi in JBL 124/4 (2005)