Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation
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DEUTERONOMY

Issues and Interpretation

Alexander Rofé

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ISBN 0 567 08754 9

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Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Preface

I The Book of Deuteronomy: A Summary

II The Monotheistic Argumentation in Deuteronomy 4:32–40: Contents, Composition and Text

III Deuteronomy 5:28–6:1: Composition and Text in the Light of Deuteronomic Style and Three Tefillin from Qumran (4Q 128, 129, 137)

VI Qumranic Paraphrases, the Greek Deuteronomy and the Late History of the Biblical נשיא

V The End of the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:43)

VI The Arrangement of the Laws in Deuteronomy

VII The Tenth Commandment in the Light of Four Deuteronomic Laws

VIII The Strata of the Law about the Centralization of Worship in Deuteronomy and the History of the Deuteronomic Movement

IX The Organization of the Judiciary in Deuteronomy

X The History of the Cities of Refuge in Biblical Law

XI The Laws of Warfare in the Book of Deuteronomy: Their Origins, Intent and Positivity

XII Family and Sex Laws in Deuteronomy and the Book of the Covenant

XIII The Covenant in the Land of Moab

XIV Methodological Aspects of the Study of Biblical Law

XV Review of M. Weinfeld, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors

Index of Passages Cited

Abbreviations

AfO Archiv für Orientforschung

AnBib Analecta Biblica

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

AnOr Analecta Orientalia

BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge

BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium

BJPES Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society

BM Beit Miqra’

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAW Beihefte zur ZAW

BWANT Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament

CB Cambridge Bible

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CTA A. Herdner, Corpus des tablettes en cunéiformes alphabétiques

DBSup Dictionnaire de la Bible, Supplément

DJD Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Oxford)

EI Eretz Israel

ETL Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses

FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

GHAT Göttinger Handkommentar zum Alten Testament

HbzAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament (Tübingen)

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

ICC International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh)

IEJ Israel Exploration Journal

IOS Israel Oriental Society

JANES Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society

JBL Journal of Biblical ...

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About Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation

This is a major study on the book of Deuteronomy by an acclaimed expert in the field. Paying particular attention to the legal passages in Deuteronomy, Professor Rofé seeks to clarify the contents and unity of each section, its literary history, the origin of the single laws and their relation to other kindred laws in other documents of the Pentateuch.

Bringing together different methods of biblical study—traditional Jewish interpretation, classical biblical criticism, form criticism, history of tradition and textual criticism—the author argues that the roots of Deuteronomy lie in monarchial Israel and Judah, that the literary climax belongs to the seventh century BCE, and that the final stages of the text are exilic and early post-exilic.

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