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"The right chorale" : studies in biblical law and interpretation / Bernard M. Levinson. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 54.Publication details: Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, (c)2008.Description: xxiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3161493826
  • 9783161493829
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BM521
  • BM521.L665.R544 2008
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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