Admonition and Curse: The Ancient Near Eastern Treaty/Covenant Form as a Problem in Inter-Cultural Relationships. By Noel Weeks. Pp. viii + 211. (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series, 407.) London and New York: T & T Clark International, 2004. isbn 0 567 08156 7. £60
This book is like a blast from the past, recalling a period just after the mid-twentieth century when Old Testament scholars were widely persuaded that a study of the form and content of ancient Near Eastern treaty texts, mainly those from the Hittite Empire of the late second millennium bce and fro...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 608-610 |
| Review of: | Admonition and curse (London [u.a.] : T & T Clark International, 2004) (Nicholson, Ernest)
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| Summary: | This book is like a blast from the past, recalling a period just after the mid-twentieth century when Old Testament scholars were widely persuaded that a study of the form and content of ancient Near Eastern treaty texts, mainly those from the Hittite Empire of the late second millennium bce and from the Neo-Assyrian period of the first millennium bce, sheds significant light upon the nature and antiquity of the notion of a covenant between God and Israel. Such was the extensive literature devoted to the subject, beginning with G. E. Mendenhall's famous essay in The Biblical Archaeologist in 1954, that in reading this new study there is inevitably some degree of déjà vu. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj117 |