The Book Within the Book

Writing in Deuteronomy
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10866-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

This volume offers a fresh approach to an old issue: the question of Moses' authorship. Whereas traditional interpretation equated the "book" written by Moses (Deut 31:9,24) with Deuteronomy, and even with the Pentateuch, and while critical historical exegesis endeavors to identify Deuteronomy's successive redactors, this study assesses the literary claim of Deuteronomy as far as Moses' writing is concerned.
The study first describes the process of communication in Deuteronomy's represented world (by Moses to the sons of Israel); it next characterizes the Book of Deuteronomy as communication (by the narrator to the reader); it eventually focuses on Deuteronomy's powerful embodiment of the theme of the "book within the book". Thus approached, Deuteronomy shows itself as a narrative theory of what (holy) "writ" is all about.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sonnet, Jean-Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Pierre Sonnet, S.J., Ph.D. (1996) in Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, is Associate Professor at the Institut d'Études Théologiques in Brussels. He has published La parole consacrée (Peeters, 1984), and several articles on the literary approach to the Hebrew Bible.