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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817609103321

Titolo

Law and ideology in monarchic Israel / / edited by Baruch Halpern and Deborah W. Hobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : JSOT Press, c1991

ISBN

1-281-80365-0

9786611803650

0-567-37839-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 124

Altri autori (Persone)

HalpernBaruch

HobsonDeborah W (Deborah Whitney)

Disciplina

222

Soggetti

Jews - History - 1200-953 B.C

Israel Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Essays ... delivered and submitted ... in 1986-87 as part of the first annual York University Seminar for Advanced Research.  They thus constitute part of the Gerstein Lectures at York University for 1987."--Foreword.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Jerusalem and the Lineages in the seventh Century BCE: Kinship and the Rise of Individual Moral Liability; The Function of the Law in the Development of Israel's Prophetic Traditions; Deuteronomy 13: The Suppression of Alien Religious Propaganda in Israel during the Late Monarchical Era; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Three major essays by Baruch Halpern, Brian Peckham and Paul E. Dion deal with traumatic changes in Israelite culture, in particular the transition from the traditional culture of Israel in Iron Age IIA (tenth-ninth centuries) to a new, more widely literate culture in the eighth-seventh centuries BCE. These essays throw into relief changes in legal, political and religious culture in Judah in the last 150 years of its independence. Their combined implications for the origins of Western law and civilization, and for the models from which Reformation and Enlightenment political theory were drawn