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"The right chorale" : studies in biblical law and interpretation

Author: Bernard M Levinson
Publisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2008.
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 54.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bernard M Levinson
ISBN: 9783161493829 3161493826
OCLC Number: 244723462
Notes: Revised versions of 12 essays previously published in various sources.
Description: xxiii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Setting the agenda : why biblical law matters. The right chorale : from the poetics to the hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible --
The seductions of the garden and the genesis of hermeneutics as critique --
The Sinai covenant : the argument of revelation --
Deuteronomy's conception of law as an "ideal type" : a missing chapter in the history of constitutional law --
pt. 2. The paradigm of legal hermeneutics : close studies and test cases. The "effected object" in contractual legal language : the semantics of "if you purchase a Hebrew slave" (Exodus 21:2) --
Textual criticism, Assyriology, and the history of interpretation : Deuteronomy 13:7a as a test case in method --
Recovering the lost original meaning of [weloʼ-tekasseh ʻalayw] (Deuteronomy 13:9) --
"But you shall surely kill him!" : the text-critical and neo-Assyrian evidence for MT Deuteronomy 13:10 --
pt. 3. Debate and dialogue : the question of method. The case for revision and interpolation within the biblical legal corpora --
Calum M. Carmichael's approach to the laws of Deuteronomy --
The hermeneutics of tradition in Deuteronomy : a reply to J.G. McConville --
Is the covenant code an exilic composition? : a response to John Van Seters.
Series Title: Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 54.
Responsibility: Bernard M. Levinson.

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