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ISBN: | 9780567588395 0567588394 9781850754671 1850754675
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Notes: | A shortened version of the author's thesis (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1990) under title: A literary approach to biblical law : Exodus 20:22-23:19. Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-214) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | This volume offers a synchronic, literary reading of the final form of the laws of Exodus 20.22-23.19 (commonly, though inaccurately labelled "The Book of the Covenant"), in contrast with primarily source- and form-critical approaches commonly utilized in the past. The work seeks to demonstrate that this literary unit is much more coherent, more integrated into its narrative context, less in need of the positing of corruptions, secondary insertions, rearrangements or the like than has usually been recognized. The approach instead seeks to find authorial purpose in each case where sch.
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Other form: | Print version: Sprinkle, Joe M. Book of the Covenant. Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, ©1994 1850754675 9781850754671
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