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Author Levinson, Bernard M. (Bernard Malcolm)

Title Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
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SUBJECT Bible. Deuteronomy, XII-XXVI -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Exodus, XX, 22-XXIII, 33 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Subject Law (Theology) -- Biblical teaching.
Law (Theology) -- Biblical teaching.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195354577
0195354575