Oxford, Date: 1997. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Highlighter throughout; previous owner name inked to front paste-down. Boards are edge worn and scuffed. 1997. Oxford ISBN 0195112806 9780195112801 [US]

Oxford University Press 1997 Hardcover Good in Very Good dust jacket 0195112806. -Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. Some foxing/age discoloration, no major blemishes. No writing.

ISBN10: 0195112806, ISBN13: 9780195112801, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. Some foxing/age discoloration, no major blemishes. No writing.
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ISBN10: 0195112806, ISBN13: 9780195112801, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Hardcover
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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation. ISBN 0195112806 9780195112801 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195112806, ISBN13: 9780195112801, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Positioned at the boundary of traditional biblical studies, legal history, and literary theory, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation shows how the legislation of Deuteronomy reflects the struggle of its authors to renew late seventh- century Judean society. Seeking to defend their revolutionary vision during the neo-Assyrian crisis, the reformers turned to earlier laws, even when they disagreed with them, and revised them in such a way as tolend authority to their new understanding of God's will. Passages that other scholars have long viewed as redundant, contradictory, or displaced actually reflect the attempt by Deuteronomy's authors tosanction their new religious aims before the legacy of the past. Drawing on ancient Near Eastern law and informed by the rich insights of classical and medieval Jewish commentary, Levinson provides an extended study of three key passages in the legal corpus: the unprecedented requirement for the centralization of worship, the law transforming the old Passover into a pilgrimage festival, and the unit replacing traditional village justice with a professionalized judiciary. Hedemonstrates the profound impact of centralization upon the structure and arrangement of the legal corpus, while providing a theoretical analysis of religious change and cultural renewal in ancient Israel. Thebook's ...
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