Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel. By Bernard M. Levinson
This is an edited and expanded version of the earlier French edition of Levinson's work, L’Herméneutique de l’innovation: Canon et exégèse dans l’Israël biblique, published in 2005. The burden of Levinson's argument is that the canonical biblical text embodies the final result of a long pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 603-605 |
| Review of: | Legal revision and religious renewal in ancient Israel (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Mason, Rex)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008) (Mason, Rex) |
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| Summary: | This is an edited and expanded version of the earlier French edition of Levinson's work, L’Herméneutique de l’innovation: Canon et exégèse dans l’Israël biblique, published in 2005. The burden of Levinson's argument is that the canonical biblical text embodies the final result of a long process of engagement and re-engagement with earlier texts and pronouncements, long regarded as authoritative and binding, which have been interpreted, reinterpreted, found newly relevant by successive generations, and applied by them to very different historical, political, and social circumstances. |
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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/flp053 |