"The right chorale"
Subtitle: studies in biblical law and interpretation
By: Bernard M. Levinson
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 54; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 54.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9783161493829
Subjects: Recht; Thora; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Jewish law; Altes Testament
Notes: Revised versions of 12 essays previously published in various sources.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-376) and indexes.

Text in English with some extracts in Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Setting the agenda : why biblical law matters. The right chorale : from the poetics to the hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible; title: The seductions of the garden and the genesis of hermeneutics as critique; title: The Sinai covenant : the argument of revelation; title: Deuteronomy's conception of law as an "ideal type" : a missing chapter in the history of constitutional law; title: pt. 2. The paradigm of legal hermeneutics : close studies and test cases. The "effected object" in contractual legal language : the semantics of "if you purchase a Hebrew slave" (Exodus 21:2); title: Textual criticism, Assyriology, and the history of interpretation : Deuteronomy 13:7a as a test case in method; title: Recovering the lost original meaning of [weloʼ-tekasseh ʻalayw] (Deuteronomy 13:9); title: "But you shall surely kill him!" : the text-critical and neo-Assyrian evidence for MT Deuteronomy 13:10; title: pt. 3. Debate and dialogue : the question of method. The case for revision and interpolation within the biblical legal corpora; title: Calum M. Carmichael's approach to the laws of Deuteronomy; title: The hermeneutics of tradition in Deuteronomy : a reply to J.G. McConville; title: Is the covenant code an exilic composition? : a response to John Van Seters.