Right Chorale : Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation.

Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Setting the Agenda: Why Biblical Law Matters -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. The Right Chorale: From the Poetics to the Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible -- 2. The Seductions of the Garden and the Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique -- 3. The Sinai Covenant: The Argument of Revelation -- 4. Deuteronomy's Conception of Law as an "Ideal Type": A Missing Chapter in the History of Constitutional Law -- The Paradigm of Legal Hermeneutics: Close Studies and Test Cases -- Introduction to Part Two -- 5. The "Effected Object" in Contractual Legal Language: The Semantics of "If You Purchase a Hebrew Slave" (Exodus 21:2) -- 6. Textual Criticism, Assyriology, and the History of Interpretation: Deuteronomy 13:7a as a Test Case in Method -- 7. Recovering the Lost Original Meaning of [omitted] (Deuteronomy 13:9) -- 8. "But You Shall Surely Kill Him!": The Text-Critical and Neo-Assyrian Evidence for MT Deuteronomy 13:10 -- Debate And Dialogue: The Question of Method -- Introduction to Part Three -- 9. The Case for Revision and Interpolation within the Biblical Legal Corpora -- 10. Calum M. Carmichael's Approach to the Laws of Deuteronomy -- 11. The Hermeneutics of Tradition in Deuteronomy: A Reply to J. G. McConville -- 12. Is the Covenant Code an Exilic Composition? A Response to John Van Seters -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Other Ancient Sources -- Index of Authors -- Index of Key Words and Phrases -- Index of Subjects.

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