TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levinson, Bernard M
AU  - Levinson,Bernard M
TI  - Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation
SN  - 9780195152883
U1  - BC12 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Bible o t Deuteronomy
KW  - Bible o t Exodus
KW  - Law -Biblical Teaching
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Textual Revision and Cultural Transformation : The hermeneutics of Legal Innovation in Deuteronomy...........3
Methodological Presuppositions .......6
The Question of Deuteronomistic revision of the Covenant code ..........11
Authoritative texts and the Problem of Legal Innovation .......13
Editorial Devices as Cues to Textual Reformation ........17
The purpose and scope of This Book .......20
2. The innovation of Cultic Centralization in Deuteronomy............12
The innovation of Centralization as Exegetical Reformulation ...........28
Lemmatic transformation in Deut 12: 13-28..............34
The double Justification of Innovation in Deut 12: 20-28..........39
Reflections upon Textuality and Exegesis in Deuteronomy 12 .........46
The Double Movement of Cultic Centralization and Local Secularization .............49
3. The transformation of Passover and Unleaved bread in Deuteronomy 16..................53
The Programmatic Origins of Deut 16: 1-8...............54
The pre-Deuteronomic Passover ...........57
The conflict between centralization and the pre-deuteronomic Passover .........62
The originality of Deuteronomy`s Transformation and blend of Passover and unleavened bread ..........65
Deuteronomy `s double transformation of Passover and Unleavened Bread .....72
Lemmatic Reformulation in Deut 16: 1-8.................75
When Texts Collide: The Hermeneutics of Prepositional Reduplication .................81
The transformation of Law and Religion in Deut 16: 16-17........90
4. The Transformation of Justice in Light of Centralization ...............98
Deut 16: 18-17: 13: The problematic of Textual Sequence ......100
A critique of the Standard solution .........107
The rewriting of legal history: The coherence of Deut 17: 2-7 and 8-13...........109
Pre-Deuteronomic Judicial Procedure in the local Sphere ........110
The hermeneutical function of Deut 17: 2-7..............123
The contextual Function of Deut 17: 8-13.........127
Apostasy as the Transgression against the Text ............133
The dialectice of Coherence .............135
The Eclipse of Royal Judicial Authority ...........138
5. The revisionary Hermeneutics of Deuteronomy..........144
Deuteronomy`s Relation to the Covenant code : A new Approach ...............149
Deuteronomy`s Self-Presentation ..............151
Revisionary hermeneutics and Literary History .................152

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