Deuteronomy 4 and the Second Commandment
Will be published approx. on 17. October 2003
Book
Hardback
XI, 130 pages
978-0-8204-6823-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Second commandment's ban on cultic images is reflected throughout the Old Testament, but its most significant exponent is found in Deuteronomy 4. This single chapter features the most comprehensive Old Testament accumulation of allusions to the Second Commandment and offers a quite unique attempt to give the commandment a theological rationale. This book analyzes this accumulation of allusions, arguing that they represent a successive interpretation of the final version of the commandment, relating it to the exilic or early postexilic context of the author of Deuteronomy 4.
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Person
The Author: Knut Holter, Professor of Old Testament at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway, has published extensively on Old Testament interpretation and African biblical hermeneutics. His publications include Second Isaiah's Idol-Fabrication Passages (Peter Lang, 1995), Tropical Africa and the Old Testament: A Select and Annotated Bibliography (1996), Yahweh in Africa: Essays on Africa and the Old Testament (Peter Lang, 2001), Old Testament Research for Africa: A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of African Old Testament Dissertations, 1967-2000 (Peter Lang, 2002), and he co-edited Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa: Papers from the International Symposium on Africa and the Old Testament in Nairobi, October 1999 (Peter Lang, 2001). Dr. Holter is also editor of the journal Bulletin for Old Testament Studies in Africa, and is the editor of Bible and Theology in Africa series (Peter Lang).