Reading the Law Studies in Honour of Gordon J. Wenham

by McConville, J. G.; Möller, Karl

• ISBN13: 9780567026422
• ISBN10: 0567026426
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

The volume will be a collection of essays by leading scholars on the interpretation of the Old Testament on the topics of law and ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Reading Pentateuchal Law
Being a Man in the Book of the Covenant	p. 3
"Fellow Citizens": Israel and Humanity in Leviticus	p. 10
Commanding an Impossibility? Reflections on the Golden Rule in Leviticus 19:18B	p. 33
The Case for the Pre-Exilic and Exilic Provenance of the Books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers	p. 48
Reading the Law in the Prophets
The Meaning of [characters not reproducible] in Isaiah 1-39	p. 59
Torah in the Minor Prophets	p. 73
The Trial of Jeremiah	p. 95
Reading the Law in the Writings
Reading, Singing and Praying the Law: An Exploration of the Performative, Self-Involving, Commissive Language of Psalm 101	p. 111
The Ethics of Lament: Lamentations 1 as a Case Study	p. 138
The Torah and History in Presentations of Restoration in Ezra-Nehemiah	p. 156
Reading the Law for Theology
The Theology of Place in Genesis 1-3	p. 173
The Regal Dimension of the [characters not reproducible]: Recovering the Literary Context of Genesis 37-50	p. 196
On Learning Spiritual Disciplines: A Reading of Exodus 16	p. 213
The Week That Made the World: Reflections on the First Pages of the Bible	p. 228
Reading the Law and History
Going Down to Sheol: A Place Name and Its West Semitic Background	p. 245
The Tablets in the Ark	p. 254
Memory, Witnesses and Genocide in the Book of Joshua	p. 267
Towards a Communicative Theology of the Old Testament	p. 283
Bibliography of the Writings of Gordon J. Wenham	p. 297
Index of References	p. 303
Index of Authors	p. 314
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