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"The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (Hardcover)
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"The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (Hardcover)
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 54
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This book presents twelve selected investigations of textual
composition, interpretation, revision, and transmission. With these
studies, Bernard Levinson draws upon the literary forebears of
biblical law in cuneiform literature and its reinterpretation in
the Second Temple period to provide the horizon of ancient
Israelite legal exegesis. The volume makes a sustained argument
about the nature of textuality in ancient Israel: Israelite scribes
were sophisticated readers, authors, and thinkers who were
conscious of their place in literary and intellectual history, even
as they sought to renew and transform their cultural patrimony in
significant ways. Originally published over a decade and a half,
the significantly revised and updated studies gathered here explore
the connections between law and narrative, show the close
connections between Deuteronomy and the Neo-Assyrian loyalty oath
tradition, address the literary relationship of Deuteronomy and the
Covenant Code, reflect upon important questions of methodology, and
explore the contributions of the Bible to later western
intellectual history. The volume offers essential reading for an
understanding of the Pentateuch and biblical law. "This collection
of essays is a testimony to Levinson's methodological brilliance
and broad perspective as a bridge-builder between the various
factions of Hebrew Bible scholarship." Armin Lange in Journal of
Ancient Judaism 1 (2010), S. 122 "The collection as a whole
triumphantly vindicates the significance of biblical law, the
essential function of diachronic analysis (source and redaction
criticism, and historical contextualization) in interpretation,
and, especially in the last section, the established positions of
the critical tradition in the succession of Wellhausen. The
footnotes and bibliography are a superb resource for the study of
biblical law. And the publishers have produced a beautiful volume
worthily complementing a fine text." Walter J. Houston in Journal
of Semitic Studies 55 (2010), S. 312-313
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