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Title Reading the law : studies in honour of Gordon J. Wenham / edited by J.G. McConville and Karl Möller.

Publication Info. New York ; London : T & T Clark, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 319 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 461
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 461.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and indexes.
Contents Reading Pentateuchal law -- Reading the law in the prophets -- Reading the law in the writings -- Reading the law for theology -- Reading the law and history.
Reading Pentateuchal law. Being a man in the Book of the Covenant / David J.A. Clines. "Fellow citizens" : Israel and humanity in Leviticus / J.G. McConville. Commanding an impossibility? : reflections on the Golden Rule in Leviticus 19:18b / Nobuyoshi Kiuchi. The case for the pre-exilic and exilic provenance of the books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers / Jacob Milgrom -- Reading the law in the Prophets. The meaning of תורה in Isaiah 1-39 / Ronald E. Clements. Torah in the Minor Prophets / Thomas Renz. The trial of Jeremiah / Raymond Westbrook -- Reading the law in the Writings. Reading, singing and praying the law : an exploration of the performative, self-involving, commissive language of Psalm 101 / Karl Möller. The ethics of lament : Lamentations 1 as a case study / Robin Parry. The Torah and history in presentations of restoration in Ezra-Nehemiah / H.G.M. Williamson -- Reading the law for theology. The theology of place in Genesis 1-3 / Craig G. Bartholomew. The regal dimension of the תולדות־יעקב : recovering the literary context of Genesis 37-50 / T. Desmond Alexander. On learning spiritual disciplines : a reading of Exodus 16 / R.W.L. Moberly. The week that made the world : reflections on the first pages of the Bible / Robert P. Gordon -- Reading the law and history. Going down to Sheol : a place name and its West Semitic background / Richard S. Hess. The tablets in the Ark / Alan Millard. Memory, witnesses and genocide in the Book of Joshua / Pekka Pitkänen. Towards a communicative theology of the Old Testament / J.W. Rogerson.
Summary This 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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Subject Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc.
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Wenham, Gordon J.
Altes Testament.
Bible and law.
Bible and law.
Law (Theology)
Law (Theology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Wenham, Gordon J.
McConville, J. G. (J. Gordon)
Möller, Karl, 1966-
Other Form: Print version: Reading the law. New York ; London : T & T Clark, ©2007 9780567026422 (DLC) 2007036011 (OCoLC)123113815
ISBN 9780567454546 (electronic book)
0567454541 (electronic book)
9780567026422
0567026426