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Etched in Stone - The Emergence of the Decalogue (Paperback)
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Etched in Stone - The Emergence of the Decalogue (Paperback)
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The document known as The Ten Commandments, more formally referred
to as The Decalogue, remains among the most controversial and
complicated passages in the Hebrew Bible. Even today, the twentieth
chapter of Exodus continues to serve as a major religious and
ethical icon within popular culture and religious communities,
despite its many unexplained elements. Lawsuits over the display of
Decalogue Tablets have occupied courtrooms in more than half the
states of this country. And yet, few people understand that there
is not one, but three versions of what are usually called The Ten
Commandments. Moreover, when their ideological underpinnings are
examined closely, these versions prove to be quite antithetical to
one another. Even fewer are aware of the probability that these
documents were written very late in the history of biblical
literature - indeed, so late as to constitute a literary
afterthought in the development of Israelite ethnic
self-definition. In "Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the
Decalogue Tradition", Aaron examines the question of when the
Decalogue versions were written and why. The main focus of this
book is the literary phenomenon known as 'the tablets' and how it
functioned within the broader narrative. Aaron argues not only that
the inclusion of the Decalogue texts was quite late in the
development of the Pentateuch's canon, but that their integration
preserves vestiges of highly charged ideological conflicts that
were inadvertently neutralized by the rather bland and generic
ethical precepts coined among its verses. "Etched in Stone"
provides a paradigm for merging a variety of critical methods
(source criticism, tradition criticism, ideological criticism,
redaction criticism) and literary approaches that have heretofore
been under-explored. In this sense, "Etched in Stone" will be read
by scholars for its far-reaching conclusions and used by students
(undergraduates, seminary, graduate) for learning approaches to the
sequencing of biblical materials.
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