Reading the Law Studies in Honour of Gordon J. Wenham

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ISBN: 9780567026422 | 0567026426
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/15/2007

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The volume will be a collection of essays by leading scholars on the interpretation of the Old Testament on the topics of law and ethics.

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Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Reading Pentateuchal Law
Being a Man in the Book of the Covenant	p. 3
"Fellow Citizens": Israel and Humanity in Leviticus	p. 10
Commanding an Impossibility? Reflections on the Golden Rule in Leviticus 19:18B	p. 33
The Case for the Pre-Exilic and Exilic Provenance of the Books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers	p. 48
Reading the Law in the Prophets
The Meaning of [characters not reproducible] in Isaiah 1-39	p. 59
Torah in the Minor Prophets	p. 73
The Trial of Jeremiah	p. 95
Reading the Law in the Writings
Reading, Singing and Praying the Law: An Exploration of the Performative, Self-Involving, Commissive Language of Psalm 101	p. 111
The Ethics of Lament: Lamentations 1 as a Case Study	p. 138
The Torah and History in Presentations of Restoration in Ezra-Nehemiah	p. 156
Reading the Law for Theology
The Theology of Place in Genesis 1-3	p. 173
The Regal Dimension of the [characters not reproducible]: Recovering the Literary Context of Genesis 37-50	p. 196
On Learning Spiritual Disciplines: A Reading of Exodus 16	p. 213
The Week That Made the World: Reflections on the First Pages of the Bible	p. 228
Reading the Law and History
Going Down to Sheol: A Place Name and Its West Semitic Background	p. 245
The Tablets in the Ark	p. 254
Memory, Witnesses and Genocide in the Book of Joshua	p. 267
Towards a Communicative Theology of the Old Testament	p. 283
Bibliography of the Writings of Gordon J. Wenham	p. 297
Index of References	p. 303
Index of Authors	p. 314
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Reading the Law Studies in Honour of Gordon J. Wenham

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