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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807274303321

Autore

Levinson Bernard M (Bernard Malcolm)

Titolo

Deuteronomy and the hermeneutics of legal innovation / / Bernard M. Levinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-773883-4

1-280-45372-9

0-19-535457-5

0-585-30196-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

222.15

222/.1506

Soggetti

Law (Theology) - Biblical teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Brandeis University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-178) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Textual Revision and Cultural Transformation: The Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation in Deuteronomy; 2. The Innovation of Cultic Centralization in Deuteronomy 12; 3. The Transformation of Passover and Unleavened Bread in Deuteronomy 16; 4. The Transformation of Justice in Light of Centralization; 5. The Revisionary Hermeneutics of Deuteronomy; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index; Index of Scriptural and Other Sources

Sommario/riassunto

Positioned at the boundary of traditional biblical studies, legal history, and literary theory, 'Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation' shows how the legislation of 'Deuteronomy' reflects the struggle of its authors to renew late seventh-century Judean society.