A Song of Power and the Power of Song
Essays on the Book of Deuteronomy
Will be published approx. on 30. June 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-931464-74-4 (ISBN)
Description
The very nature of the Book of Deuteronomy attracts the attention of all who work in the disciplines of biblical theology and historical-critical methodology. This volume collects twenty-five seminal articles (several published for the first time in English) that provide a vital introduction to the major interpretive issues surrounding Deuteronomy. This volume will serve as a primary or supplementary textbook in upper-level Deuteronomy or Pentateuch courses and will be an invaluable resource to all students and scholars working in the Book of Deuteronomy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pennsylvania State University Press
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-931464-74-4 (9780931464744)
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Content
Series Preface
Editor's Preface
Abbreviations
Duane L. Christensen - Deuteronomy in Modern Research: Approaches and Issues
Part 1: Basic Issues and the Book As a Whole
Moshe Weinfeld - Deuteronomy: The Present State of Inquiry
Norbert Lohfink - Recent Discussion on 2 Kings 22-23: The State of the Question
S. Dean McBride, Jr. - Polity of the Covenant People: The Book of Deuteronomy
E. W. Nicholson - Covenant in a Century of Study since Wellhausen
Gordon J. Wenham - Deuteronomy and the Central Sanctuary
Peter C. Craigie - Deuteronomy and Ugaritic Studies
C. Brekelmans - Wisdom Influence in Deuteronomy
Part 2: The Outer Frame: Deuteronomy 1-3 and 31-34
Timo Veijola - Principal Observations of the Basic Story in Deuteronomy 1-3
William L. Moran - The End of the Unholy War and the Anti-Exodus
Patrick W. Skehan - The Structure of the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy (32:1-43)
George E. Mendenhall - Samuel's 'Broken Rib': Deuteronomy 32
George W. Coats - Legendary Motifs in the Moses Death Reports
Part 3: The Inner Frame: Deuteronomy 4-11 and 27-30
A. D. H. Mayes - Deuteronomy 4 and the Literary Criticism of Deuteronomy
Anthony Phillips - The Decalogue: Ancient Israel's Criminal Law
F. Charles Fensham - Malediction and Benediction in Ancient Near Eastern Vassal-Treaties and the Old Testament
Elizabeth Bellefontaine - The Curses of Deuteronomy 27: Their Relationship to the Prohibitives
Alexander Rofe - The Covenant in the Land of Moab (Deuteronomy 28: 69-30:20): Historico-Literary, Comparative, and Formcritical Considerations
Part 4: The Central Core: Deuteronomy 12-26
Moshe Greenberg - Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law
Patrick D. Miller - 'Moses My Servant': The Deuteronomic Portrait of Moses
Georg Braulik - The Sequence of the Laws in Deuteronomy 12-26 and in the Decalogue
Norbert Lohfink - Distribution of the Functions of Power: The Laws Concerning Public Offices in Deuteronomy 16:18-18:22
Part 5: New Directions in Recent Research
Robert Polzin - Reporting Speech in the Book of Deuteronomy: Toward a Compositional Analysis of the Deuteronomic History
Casper J. Labuschagne - Divine Speech in Deuteronomy
Duane L. Christensen - The Numeruswechsel in Deuteronomy 12
Index of Authorities
Index of Scripture References
Editor's Preface
Abbreviations
Duane L. Christensen - Deuteronomy in Modern Research: Approaches and Issues
Part 1: Basic Issues and the Book As a Whole
Moshe Weinfeld - Deuteronomy: The Present State of Inquiry
Norbert Lohfink - Recent Discussion on 2 Kings 22-23: The State of the Question
S. Dean McBride, Jr. - Polity of the Covenant People: The Book of Deuteronomy
E. W. Nicholson - Covenant in a Century of Study since Wellhausen
Gordon J. Wenham - Deuteronomy and the Central Sanctuary
Peter C. Craigie - Deuteronomy and Ugaritic Studies
C. Brekelmans - Wisdom Influence in Deuteronomy
Part 2: The Outer Frame: Deuteronomy 1-3 and 31-34
Timo Veijola - Principal Observations of the Basic Story in Deuteronomy 1-3
William L. Moran - The End of the Unholy War and the Anti-Exodus
Patrick W. Skehan - The Structure of the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy (32:1-43)
George E. Mendenhall - Samuel's 'Broken Rib': Deuteronomy 32
George W. Coats - Legendary Motifs in the Moses Death Reports
Part 3: The Inner Frame: Deuteronomy 4-11 and 27-30
A. D. H. Mayes - Deuteronomy 4 and the Literary Criticism of Deuteronomy
Anthony Phillips - The Decalogue: Ancient Israel's Criminal Law
F. Charles Fensham - Malediction and Benediction in Ancient Near Eastern Vassal-Treaties and the Old Testament
Elizabeth Bellefontaine - The Curses of Deuteronomy 27: Their Relationship to the Prohibitives
Alexander Rofe - The Covenant in the Land of Moab (Deuteronomy 28: 69-30:20): Historico-Literary, Comparative, and Formcritical Considerations
Part 4: The Central Core: Deuteronomy 12-26
Moshe Greenberg - Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law
Patrick D. Miller - 'Moses My Servant': The Deuteronomic Portrait of Moses
Georg Braulik - The Sequence of the Laws in Deuteronomy 12-26 and in the Decalogue
Norbert Lohfink - Distribution of the Functions of Power: The Laws Concerning Public Offices in Deuteronomy 16:18-18:22
Part 5: New Directions in Recent Research
Robert Polzin - Reporting Speech in the Book of Deuteronomy: Toward a Compositional Analysis of the Deuteronomic History
Casper J. Labuschagne - Divine Speech in Deuteronomy
Duane L. Christensen - The Numeruswechsel in Deuteronomy 12
Index of Authorities
Index of Scripture References