Reading the Law

Studies in Honour of Gordon J. Wenham
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-567-02642-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 654 g

Reihe: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

The book is a Festschrift for Prof. Gordon Wenham. Its chosen theme is intended to reflect his central interests in his long career of writing on the Old Testament, in which he has exemplified the highest standards of scholarship, but also written for practitioners of biblical interpretation. The topic of 'reading the law' has three aspects which will be treated by the various contributions, namely: 1. Reading the Pentateuch: Pentateuchal criticism, narrative readings, rhetorical-critical readings; 2. Reading the Law: the law codes in historical and/or literary context, anthropological readings, the law in relation to prophets, wisdom, worship; 3. Reading the Bible ethically: e.g. ethics of marriage, war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McConville, Gordon

Möller, Karl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

G. McConville is Professor of Old Testament Theology in the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He has written extensively on Old Testament theology with a special focus on Deuteronomy, and has recently written a major commentary on that book.

Karl Möller received his Ph.D. from Cheltenham & Gloucester College, UK, where he now works as a researcher in the School of Theology and Religious Studies.