The Decalogue and its cultural influence
By: edited by Dominik Markl
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 58; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 58.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781909697065
Subjects: Budorden; Dekalog; Influenser; Ten commandments; Criticism, interpretation; Kultur; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); History
Description: "The 22 papers in this volume offer the richest and most wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of studies on the reception of the Decalogue in culture, and will prove to be a fundamental resource for students of the biblical text and of the reception of the Bible in general"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the Decalogue's cultural radiance ; The ten words revealed and revised: the origins of law and legal hermeneutics in the Pentateuch / Dominik Markl; title: The reception history of the Decalogue through early translations: the case of the Septuagint, Peshitta, and Targums / Innocent Himbaza; title: The Decalogue in Pseudo-Phocylides and Syriac Menander: 'unwritten laws' or Decalogue reception? / J. Cornelis de Vos; title: The Decalogue in the New Testament Apocrypha: a preliminary overview and some examples / Hermut Löhr; title: The Decalogue in Western theology from the church fathers to the thirteenth century / Miguel Lluch Baixauli; title: The Decalogue in Jewish liturgy / Ruth Langer; title: Vernacular treatments of the Ten Commandments in Anglo-Saxon England / Aaron J. Kleist; title: The Ten Commandments in the Ethiopic tradition / Ralph Lee; title: Thomas Aquinas on the Ten Commandments and the natural law / Randall B. Smith; title: The dissemination of the Decalogue in English and lay responses to its promotion in early modern English Protestantism / Ian Green; title: Repurposing the Decalogue in Reformation England / Jonathan Willis; title: The reception of the Decalogue in Protestant catechisms / Hans-Jürgen Fraas; title: The Decalogue and the moral manual tradition: from Trent to Vatican II / James F. Keenan; title: The Decalogue in American catechisms of the sixteenth century / Luis Resines; title: The Decalogue in late medieval and early modern imagery: catechetical purpose and theological implications / Veronika Thum; title: 'The law of ten commandments': William Blake and the Decalogue / Christopher Rowland; title: Joseph Haydn's Die heiligen zehn Gebote als Canons and Sigismund Neukomm's Das Gesetz des alten Bundes, oder die Gesetzgebung auf Sinaï: exemplification of changes in musical settings of the Ten Commandments during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Luciane Beduschi; title: The law and the artist in the age of extremes: on Thomas Mann's Das Gesetz / Gerhard Lauer; title: The Decalogue: the scholarly tradition critiqued / David J.A. Clines; title: The reception of the Decalogue in film: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue / Lloyd Baugh; title: The Ten Commandments and the problem of legal transplants in contemporary America / Steven Wilf.