Dating Deuteronomy

Author : Josef Schubert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532638744
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dating Deuteronomy written by Josef Schubert and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Torah was recognized as a unit before the separation between the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This book challenges established biblical scholarship derived from two assumptions of the Wellhausen Fallacy: a) Deuteronomy could not have been written before the time of Josiah (650 BCE); b) The existence of a group of redactors in the fifth century BCE or later. The first premise is based on the mistranslation of the biblical text. The second is based on the unlikely assumption that the scribes of the Second Temple era felt free to edit old documents or to ascribe their own writings to Mosaic times. The Samarian version of the Pentateuch is virtually identical to the traditional (Masoretic) text. It is preposterous to assume that the Samarians would accept a fictitious Torah composed by Judean exiles of the Persian period or later as authoritative. Neither Samarians nor Judeans copied the Pentateuch from each other. The biblical text and the Samarian texts are merely different editions of the same document.

Author : Craig Davis
Publisher : Craig Davis
ISBN 13 : 0979506204
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dating the Old Testament written by Craig Davis and published by Craig Davis. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating the Old Testament addresses the subject of when the books of the Bible were written. It explains why the books of Genesis through Deuteronomy are a literary unity, and how the Egyptian background for these books support a date of writing during the exodus generation. It provides a detailed critique of the Documentary Hypothesis, the theory that Genesis through Joshua were created from four different sources usually labelled J, E, D, and P. It provides extensive evidence that all of Isaiah was written by Isaiah himself, and shows why Isaiah may have had a role in the collection and publication of other Old Testament books. It describes why the book of Daniel should be considered a product of the early Persian era and not the much later Maccabean period. The book contains a discussion of how the Hebrew language changed during the Old Testament era, and how this can be used to help date the books of the Old Testament.

Author : Bernard M. Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195152883
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation written by Bernard M. Levinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Seeking to defend their revolutionary vision during the neo-Assyrian crisis, the reformers turned to earlier laws, even when they disagreed with them, and revised them in such a way as to lend authority to their new understanding of God's will. Passages that other scholars have long viewed as redundant, contradictory, or displaced actually reflect the attempt by Deuteronomy's authors to sanction their new religious aims before the legacy of the past. Drawing on ancient Near Eastern law and informed by the rich insights of classical and medieval Jewish commentary, Levinson provides an extended study of three key passages in the legal corpus: the unprecedented requirement for the centralization of worship, the law transforming the old Passover into a pilgrimage festival, and the unit replacing traditional village justice with a professionalized judiciary. He demonstrates the profound impact of centralization upon the structure and arrangement of the legal corpus, while providing a theoretical analysis of religious change and cultural renewal in ancient Israel. The book's conclusion shows how the techniques of authorship developed in Deuteronomy provided a model for later Israelite and post- biblical literature. Integrating the most recent European research on the redaction of Deuteronomy with current American and Israeli scholarship, Levinson argues that biblical interpretation must attend to both the diachronic and the synchronic dimensions of the text. His study, which provides a new perspective on intertextuality, the history of authorship, and techniques of legal innovation in the ancient world, will engage pentateuchal critics and historians of Israelite religion, while reaching out toward current issues in literary theory and Critical Legal Studies.

Author : Paul Sanders
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004106482
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provenance of Deuteronomy Thirty-two written by Paul Sanders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of previous literature about the provenance of the song in Deuteronomy 32 and a discussion of its text and poetic structure. The author concludes that the song dates from the pre-exilic period.

Author : Daisy Yulin Tsai
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110364425
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Deuteronomy written by Daisy Yulin Tsai and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy. Previous studies that compared the biblical and the ANE laws focused primarily on their similarities and developed theories of direct borrowing. This ignored the fact that legal transplants were common in ancient societies. This study, in contrast, aims to identify similarities and dissimilarities in order to pursue an understanding of the underlying values promoted within these slave laws and the interests they protected. To do so, certain innovative methodologies were applied. The biblical laws examined present two diverse legal concepts that contrast to the ANE concepts: (1) all agents are regarded as persons and should be treated accordingly, and (2) all legal subjects are seen as free, dignified, and self-determining human beings. In addition, the biblical laws often distinguish an offender’s “criminal intent,” by which a criminal’s rights are also considered. Based on these features, the biblical laws are able to articulate YHWH’s humanitarian concerns and the basic concepts of human rights presented in Deuteronomy.

Author : Ian Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351560050
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Volume 2 written by Ian Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of critical scholarship biblical texts have been dated using linguistic evidence. Until now there has been no introduction to and comprehensive overview of the field. Volume 2 of Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts contains an extensive overview of dates attributed to different books and corpora of the Hebrew Bible in modern scholarship, demonstrating the lack of consensus on the dating of biblical texts. A synthesis of the main arguments of the work is presented, drawing also on many points from volume 1, followed by 50 pages of case studies, a list of linguistic features attributed to LBH in earlier research, a bibliography of 70 pages and several indexes.

Author : Alexander Rofé
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567087546
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deuteronomy written by Alexander Rofé and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major study on the book of Deuteronomy by an acclaimed expert in the field.Paying particular attention to the legal passages in Deuteronomy, Professor RofT seeks to clarify the contents and unity of each section, its literary history, the origin of the single laws and their relation to other kindred laws in other documents of the Pentateuch.Bringing together different methods of biblical study - traditional Jewish interpretation, classical biblical criticism, form criticism, history of tradition and textual criticism - the author argues that the roots of Deuteronomy lie in monarchial Israel and Judah, that the literary climax belongs to the seventh century BCE, and that the final stages of the text are exilic and early post-exilic.

Author : T. M. Lemos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521113490
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine written by T. M. Lemos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine, T. M. Lemos traces changes in the marriage customs of ancient Palestine over the course of several hundred years. The most important of these changes was a shift in emphasis from bridewealth to dowry, the latter of which clearly predominated in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Whereas previous scholarship has often attributed these shifts to the influence of foreign groups, Lemos connects them instead with a transformation that occurred in Palestine's social structure during the very same period. In the early Iron Age, Israel was a kinship-based society with a subsistence economy, but as the centuries passed, it became increasingly complex and developed marked divisions between rich and poor. At the same time, the importance of its kinship groups waned greatly. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that draws heavily on anthropological research, cultural theory, archaeological evidence, and historical-critical methods, Lemos posits that shifts in marriage customs were directly related to these wider social changes.

Author : Arie Versluis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341315
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7 written by Arie Versluis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7, Arie Versluis analyzes the content and background of the Old Testament command to exterminate the nations of Canaan and discusses the moral and theological questions it evokes.

Author : Daniel I. Block
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310492017
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deuteronomy written by Daniel I. Block and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged as a series of sermons, the book of Deuteronomy represents the final major segment of the biography of Moses. The sermons review events described in earlier books and challenges Israel to faithful living in the future. The theological significance of Deuteronomy cannot be overestimated. Few books in the Bible proclaim such a relevant word of grace and gospel to the church today. At its heart, Deuteronomy records the covenantal relationship between God and his people. God graciously has chosen Israel as his covenant partner and has demonstrated his covenantal commitment to them. Moses challenges the Israelites to respond by declaring that Yahweh alone is their God and by demonstrating unwavering loyalty and total love for him through obedience. Daniel Block highlights the unity between the God depicted in Deuteronomy and Jesus Christ. Christians who understand the covenantal character of God and who live under the grace of Christ will resist the temptation to retreat into interior and subjective understandings of the life of faith so common in Western Christianity.