"The right chorale" : studies in biblical law and interpretation /
Levinson, Bernard M.
"The right chorale" : studies in biblical law and interpretation / [print] Bernard M. Levinson. - Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, (c)2008. - xxiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 54 0940-4155 ; . - Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 54. .
Revised versions of 12 essays previously published in various sources.
part 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 [welo-tekasseh alayw] (Deuteronomy 13:9) -- "But you shall surely kill him!" : the text-critical and neo-Assyrian evidence for Montana Deuteronomy 13:10 -- part 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.
3161493826 9783161493829
Jewish law.
BM521 BM521.L665.R544 2008
"The right chorale" : studies in biblical law and interpretation / [print] Bernard M. Levinson. - Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, (c)2008. - xxiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 54 0940-4155 ; . - Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 54. .
Revised versions of 12 essays previously published in various sources.
part 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 [welo-tekasseh alayw] (Deuteronomy 13:9) -- "But you shall surely kill him!" : the text-critical and neo-Assyrian evidence for Montana Deuteronomy 13:10 -- part 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.
3161493826 9783161493829
Jewish law.
BM521 BM521.L665.R544 2008