By Bernard M Levinson
This publication offers twelve chosen investigations of textual composition, interpretation, revision, and transmission. With those experiences, Bernard Levinson attracts at the literary forebears of biblical legislation in cuneiform literature and its reinterpretation within the moment Temple interval to supply the horizon of historic Israelite felony exegesis. the amount makes a sustained argument concerning the nature of textuality in historic Israel: Israelite scribes have been refined readers, authors, and thinkers who have been aware of their position in literary and highbrow background, whilst they sought to resume and rework their cultural patrimony in major methods. initially released over a decade and a part, the considerably revised and up-to-date reports amassed the following discover the connections among legislations and narrative, exhibit the shut connections among Deuteronomy and the Neo-Assyrian loyalty oath culture, tackle the literary courting of Deuteronomy and the Covenant Code, examine very important questions of technique, and discover the contributions of the Bible to later Western highbrow heritage. the amount bargains crucial studying for an knowing of the Pentateuch and biblical legislation.
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Third, and finally, I will contend that not only must the legal corpora of the Bible be made central to a theoretical conception of revelation, they must also be made central to the literary study of the Bible: no less than the narrative texts, the legal texts of the Bible reflect its unique textuality and point to techniques of authorship that should be of most interest to literary theorists. The broad conspectus of Sternberg’s book and its concern for both methodological and theoretical comprehensiveness impose a responsibility upon his readers.
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften; Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1972), 100. Spinoza’s use of the term marks an implicit polemic with the Dutch Cartesian philosopher and physician, Ludwig Meyer (d. 1681). See the posthumously published commentary on the Tractatus by Carl Gebhardt in Spinoza, Opera, vol. 5: 14 I. Setting the Agenda: Why Biblical Law Matters between hermeneutics and intellectual history or ethics. Most specialists over the past century have concerned themselves primarily with philology, text criticism, history, and the reconstruction of the allegedly earliest and original version of the text.
XXXIII:I, units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). , Behaþaloteka, 64 in the edition of Saul Horovitz, Siphre D’be Rab (Jerusalem: Wahrmann, 1966), 61. In the Talmud, cf. y. äeqal. 1; y. 3; b. PesaĜ. 6b. 12 I. Setting the Agenda: Why Biblical Law Matters post-Mosaic origins of the Pentateuch. 6 Nonetheless Spinoza’s concerns in this portion of the Tractatus were not to void the text of significance and authority. 7 That such is the prevalent understanding of Spinoza, however, accounts for the unease about his work that endures among scholars of Judaica.