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Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible (Hardcover): Baruch J. Schwartz, Naphtali S. Meshel, Jeffrey Stackert,... Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible (Hardcover)
Baruch J. Schwartz, Naphtali S. Meshel, Jeffrey Stackert, David P. Wright
R4,570 Discovery Miles 45 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is acollection of essays on purificaton and atonement in the Hebrew Bible that provides new insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. The collection also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the function or meaning of ritual, even within the highly systematic priestly texts.

Disruption to Diversity - Edinburgh Divinity 1846-1996 (Hardcover): David P. Wright, Gary Badcock Disruption to Diversity - Edinburgh Divinity 1846-1996 (Hardcover)
David P. Wright, Gary Badcock
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first comprehensive history of New College, celebrating the story of theology at Edinburgh over the past 150 years. Raises important questions about the future relationship between church and university.

Inventing God's Law - How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi (Paperback): David P.... Inventing God's Law - How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi (Paperback)
David P. Wright
R1,653 Discovery Miles 16 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.

Inventing God's Law - How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi (Hardcover): David P.... Inventing God's Law - How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi (Hardcover)
David P. Wright
R3,761 Discovery Miles 37 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.

The Disposal of Impurity - Elimination Rites in the Bible and in Hittite and Mesopotamian Literature (Paperback): David P.... The Disposal of Impurity - Elimination Rites in the Bible and in Hittite and Mesopotamian Literature (Paperback)
David P. Wright
R852 Discovery Miles 8 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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