The Torah and the King: Zedekiah’s Edict (Jer 34) and Deuteronomistic Redaction
The notion that the Torah represents a supervening »rule of law« that circumscribes the political and legal authority of the king stems from a particular Deuteronomistic scribal circle that worked long after the Davidic monarchy had ended. Using Zedekiah’s edict (Jer 34:8-22) as a case study, this p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022
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Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Year: 2022, Volume: 134, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-54 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fukuyama, Francis 1952-
/ Jeremiah Prophet ca. 600 BC
/ Monarchy
/ Constitutional state
/ Torah
/ Bible. Jeremia 34,8-22
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism HH Archaeology |
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| Summary: | The notion that the Torah represents a supervening »rule of law« that circumscribes the political and legal authority of the king stems from a particular Deuteronomistic scribal circle that worked long after the Davidic monarchy had ended. Using Zedekiah’s edict (Jer 34:8-22) as a case study, this paper examines how Deuteronomistic redactors recast the final normative legal act of an independent Judahite king as his pious application of Pentateuchal law. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-0103 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2022-0002 |