Disloyalty and destruction
Subtitle: religion and politics in Deuteronomy and the modern world
By: Rob Barrett.
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 511
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780567614148
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Deuteronomy -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christianity and politics; Judaism and politics; Religion and politics
Description: This work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy. The biblical text is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Durham University, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.