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Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 44.99Positioned 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. more...
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 23.00This book examines the problem of divine transgenerational punishment and the writers who confronted it. more...
Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law
Continuum International Publishing 1994; US$ 130.00The essays in this volume focus on two crucial topics that have been given short shrift in the contemporary debate on the composition and formation of the Pentateuch: (1) biblical law, and the development of Israelite legal institutions; (2) the significance of ancient Near Eastern law for developing a proper model for the composition and editorial... more...
"The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation
Mohr Siebeck 2008; US$ 117.55Hauptbeschreibung This book presents twelve selected investigations of textual composition, interpretation, revision, and transmission. With these studies, Bernard Levinson draws upon the literary forebears of biblical law in cuneiform literature and its reinterpretation in the Second Temple period to provide the horizon of ancient Israelite legal... more...
Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Continuum International Publishing 1998; US$ 140.00This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near East law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the significance of gender in the formulation of ancient law and custom? Feminist scholarship is enriched... more...
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