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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457335003321

Autore

Levinson Bernard M (Bernard Malcolm)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, Ind., : Eisenbrauns, 2011

ISBN

1-57506-645-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Disciplina

221.6

Soggetti

Jewish law - Interpretation and construction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-376) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Setting the Agenda: Why Biblical Law Matters""; ""Introduction to Part One""; ""1. The Right Chorale: From the Poetics to the Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible""; ""2. The Seductions of the Garden and the Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique""; ""3. The Sinai Covenant: The Argument of Revelation""; ""4. Deuteronomy�s Conception of Law as an “Ideal Type�: A Missing Chapter in the History of Constitutional Law""; ""The Paradigm of Legal Hermeneutics: Close Studies and Test Cases""; ""Introduction to Part Two""

""5. The “Effected Object� in Contractual Legal Language: The Semantics of “If You Purchase a Hebrew Slave� (Exodus 21:2)""""6. Textual Criticism, Assyriology, and the History of Interpretation: Deuteronomy 13:7a as a Test Case in Method""; ""7. Recovering the Lost Original Meaning of [omitted] (Deuteronomy 13:9)""; ""8. “But You Shall Surely Kill Him!�: The Text-Critical and Neo-Assyrian Evidence for MT Deuteronomy 13:10""; ""Debate And Dialogue: The Question of Method""; ""Introduction to Part Three""

""9. The Case for Revision and Interpolation within the Biblical Legal Corpora""""10. Calum M. Carmichael�s Approach to the Laws of Deuteronomy""; ""11. The Hermeneutics of Tradition in Deuteronomy: A Reply to J. G. McConville""; ""12. Is the Covenant Code an Exilic Composition? A Response to John Van Seters""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Scripture""; ""Index of Other Ancient



Sources""; ""Index of Authors""; ""Index of Key Words and Phrases""; ""Index of Subjects""