English summary: In this monograph, Raik Heckl deals with the hermeneutic strategies presented in the composition of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah. These shed light on the political and religious discourses of its time of origin, thus making it possible to understand why the book presents a re-contextualization of older texts. The book of Ezra-Nehemiah itself is a late postexilic ideological manifesto which presents the return from the Babylonian exile,...