Obeying the First Part of the Tenth Commandment: Applications from the Levirate Marriage Law
Within the last thirty years, a handful of scholars have cogently argued on the basis of ancient Near Eastern law codes and literary structure that the legal applications in Deuteronomy 6-26 are structured in roughly the same sequence as the Ten Commandments in ch. 5. Even more pertinent for underst...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2007
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2007, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 295-310 |
| Further subjects: | B
Tenth Commandment
B Desire B Deuteronomy B Levirate B Deuteronomy 25.5-10 B Marriage B literary structure |
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| Summary: | Within the last thirty years, a handful of scholars have cogently argued on the basis of ancient Near Eastern law codes and literary structure that the legal applications in Deuteronomy 6-26 are structured in roughly the same sequence as the Ten Commandments in ch. 5. Even more pertinent for understanding the meaning of chs. 6-26 and the Decalogue, Dennis Olson argues for a correlative interpretation between the two legal corpora. The present study examines possible correlations between the first part of the tenth commandment (Deut. 5.21a) and the so-labeled ‘levirate marriage’ law (Deut. 25.5-10) to address whether levirate marriage is an institutionalized exception to the tenth commandment against desiring a neighbor’s wife or whether it is more properly viewed as a way to obey the commandment. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089207076359 |