The Monumentality of the Sinaitic Decalogue: Reading Exodus 20 in Light of Northwest Semitic Monument-Making Practices

The Decalogue in Exodus was composed and strategically embedded in its literary context in order to reflect the discourse of Northwest Semitic monumental inscriptions. Monument making in the ancient Near East involved primarily the materialization and perpetuation of ideologies as well as the propos...

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Main Author: Hogue, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Scholar's Press [2019]
In: Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 138, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-99
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B NAME of God
B Bible. Exodus 20
B Exodus, The
B OSBORNE, James
B Ideology
B Collective Memory
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