The Flood and the Returnees of Israel

The people readily assent to the covenant with only a small handful of dissenters. It is not obvious whether the dissenters object to the putting away of the foreign wives their children, or whether their objection is merely to committing the process to the charge of local authorities. The returnees enforce the policy, the policy being administered by the heads of fathers houses appointed by ezra himself, over a period of three months. If a connection with the flood and the exodus narratives were intended, it might raise some interesting possibilities. For instance, it might invite us to consider parallels between the intermarriage that was part of the sin provoking the flood, the sons of god taking the daughters of men,