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9780521171915

Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel

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    9780521171915

  • ISBN10:

    0521171911

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-16
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This book examines the doctrine of transgenerational punishment found in the Decalogue the idea that God punishes sinners vicariously, extending the punishment due them to three or four generations of their progeny. Although a 'God-given' law, the unfairness of punishing innocent people in this way was clearly recognized in ancient Israel. A series of inner-biblical and post-biblical responses to the rule demonstrates that later writers were able to criticize, reject, and replace this doctrine with the notion of individual retribution. Supporting further study, it includes a valuable bibliographical essay on the distinctive approach of inner-biblical exegesis, showing the contributions of European, Israeli, and North American scholars. This Cambridge release represents a major revision and expansion of the French edition, L'Hermegrave;neutique de l'innovation: Canon et exegrave;geacute;se dans l'Israeuml;l biblique, nearly doubling its length with extensive content and offering alternative perspectives on debates about canonicity, textual authority, and authorship.

Table of Contents

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