Immigrants and innovative law
Subtitle: Deuteronomy's theological and social vision for the [rg]
By: Mark A. Awabdy
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe -- 67; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 67.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783161528354
Subjects: Practical Theology; Sociological jurisprudence; Bible; Theologie; Criticism, interpretation; Gesetz; Soziale Integration; Emigration And Immigration In The Bible; Einwanderungspolitik; Law (Theology) - Biblical teaching; Einwanderer; Bible. Deuteronomy - Criticism, interpretation
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 2012 under title: He loves the immigrant : Deuteronomy's theological and social vision for the ger.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Studies on the [rg] in Deuteronomy; title: Establishing and analyzing the [rg] texts; title: Immigrant-in-Egypt and slave-in-Egypt formulae : demarcations, import, and origins; title: The [rg] and Torah : D's interpretation of the covenant code and distrinction from H; title: Social and religious integration; title: Conclusion.