Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel

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Author: Bernard M. Levinson

ISBN-10: 0521513448

ISBN-13: 9780521513449

Category: Customs, Practices, & Rituals - Judaism

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This book examines the problem of divine transgenerational punishment and the writers who confronted it.

1. Biblical studies as the meeting point of the humanities; 2. Rethinking the relation between 'canon' and 'exegesis'; 3. The problem of innovation within the formative canon; 4. The reworking of the principle of transgenerational punishment: four case studies; 5. The canon as sponsor of innovation; 6. The phenomenon of rewriting within the Hebrew Bible: a bibliographic essay on 'inner-biblical exegesis' in the history of scholarship.