| In Dessa Rose, Adam Nehemiah, the Southern historiographer, weaves a narrative designed to trap Dessa and unwrite her humanity. |
| Nehemiah condemns it as destructive to personal and civic freedom. |
| At the head of this deputation was Hanani, a kinsman of Nehemiah. |
| Mr Meshach Nehemiah, who drives the Pietermaritzburg AMS vehicle, picked it up. |
| It is no more true now than in the times of David or Nehemiah. |
| It was upon these grounds, at least on the religious ideological level, that the exclusionists, led by Nehemiah and Ezra, based their attack on mixed marriages. |
