Bernard M. Levinson

Gebundenes Buch

Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel

Beschreibung

This book examines the problem of divine transgenerational punishment and the writers who confronted it.

Autor

Bernard M. Levinson holds the Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1997), which won the 1999 Salo W. Baron Award for Best First Book in Literature and Thought from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is coeditor of four volumes, most recently The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (2007), and the author of The Right Chorale: Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008). The interdisciplinary significance of his work has been recognized with appointments to both the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780521513449
• ISBN-10: 0521513448
• Artikelnr.: 24926751