"The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation

I. Setting the Agenda: Why Biblical Law Matters
1."The Right Chorale": From the Poetics of Biblical Narrative to the Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible
2.The Seductions of the Garden: The Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique
3.The Covenant at Mount Sinai: The Argument of Revelation
4.Deuteronomy's Conception of Law as an "Ideal Type": A Missing Chapter in the History of Constitutional Law

II. The Paradigm of Legal Hermeneutics: Close Studies and Test Cases
5.The "Effected Object" in Contractual Legal Language: The Semantics of "If You Purchase a Hebrew Slave" (Exodus 21:2)
6.Textual Criticism, Assyriology, and the History of Interpretation: Deuteronomy 13:7a as a Test Case in Method
7.Recovering the Lost Original Meaning of ??? ???? ???? (Deuteronomy 13:9)
8."But You Shall Surely Kill Him!": The Text-Critical and Neo-Assyrian Evidence for MT Deuteronomy 13:10

III. Debate and Dialogue: The Question of Method
9.The Case for Revision and Interpolation within the Biblical Legal Corpora
10.Calum M. Carmichael's Approach to the Laws of Deuteronomy
11.The Hermeneutics of Tradition in Deuteronomy: A Reply to J. G. McConville
12.Is the Covenant Code an Exilic Composition? A Response to John Van Seters