Hebrew Legal Fictions and the Development of Deuteronomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-89
Author(s):  
Sara J. Milstein
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Legal Fictions

Scholars have long proposed that a subset of biblical laws in Deuteronomy 19–25 is rooted in an older collection of family laws. These laws include Deut 21:15–17, the case of a man with two wives; Deut 22:13–19, the case of a man who accuses his wife of adultery; Deut 22:28–29, the case of an assaulted virgin; Deut 24:1–4, the case of a two-time divorcee; Deut 25:5–10, the case of a widow and her negligent in-law; and several others. These and several other texts bear striking parallels to the Mesopotamian legal-pedagogical genre of fictional cases, however, suggesting that the biblical texts reflect an analogous group. Only later were these units supplemented and put to new ends, an act that created the illusion of a law collection in Deuteronomy.

Metaphor As A Stylistic Feature In Biblical Texts Of Retribution

2018 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Saja AbdulAmeer ◽  
Riyadh Tariq Kadhim Al-Ameedi
Keyword(s):  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Biblical Texts

Continuidades y discontinuidades en la traducción de las locuciones prepositivas en los romanceamientos bíblicos medievales

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Viorica Codita
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
General Estoria

"Continuities and Discontinuities in the Translations of Prepositional Phrases in Medieval Biblical Texts. In this work we present an analysis of prepositional phrases in two contemporary translations, Biblia prealfonsí and the biblical part of General Estoria 4, on the basis of the Book of Ecclesiasticus. The aim of this study is to describe the state of variation of prepositional phrases in 13th century, delineating the similarities and divergences of solutions, and also to try to elucidate how much interferes the original Latin text, Vulgata, in the use of the prepositional phrases.

ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE JONAH NARRATIVE – HAVE THEY SUCCEEDED IN OVERCOMING ANTHROPOCENTRISM?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willie Van Heerden
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship

A central concern of ecological biblical hermeneutics is to overcome the anthropocentric bias we are likely to find both in interpretations of the biblical texts and in the biblical text itself. One of the consequences of anthropocentrism has been described as a sense of distance, separation, and otherness in the relationship between humans and other members of the Earth community. This article is an attempt to determine whether extant ecological interpretations of the Jonah narrative have successfully addressed this sense of estrangement. The article focuses on the work of Ernst M. Conradie (2005), Raymond F. Person (2008), Yael Shemesh (2010), Brent A. Strawn (2012), and Phyllis Trible (1994, 1996).

The Literary and Ideological Character of the Letters in Ezra 4–7

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Grätz
Keyword(s):  
Persian Period ◽  
Jerusalem Temple ◽  
Biblical Texts

At first glance, the Aramaic letters embedded in the biblical book of Ezra look like authentic documents issued in favour of the Judaeans by the Achaemenid chanceries. This chapter shows that the letters display formulaic and stylistic features differing from authentic imperial Persian royal correspondence, that the contents of these letters are influenced by other biblical texts, chiefly Deutero-Isaiah and the books of Chronicles, and that the image of the king in these letters comprises aspects of the euergetism characteristic of Hellenistic monarchs. Grätz therefore suggests that the letters in Ezra 4–7 are fictitious and serve certain literary and ideological purposes: they present the Persian period as a time of divinely monitored reconstruction after the exile, and they emphasize God’s lasting election of Judah and the Jerusalem temple. The deployment of letters for such purposes can be compared with similar practices in Hellenistic historiography.

Spinoza’s Biblical Criticism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jetze Touber
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Divine Election ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Way

Chapter 1 homes in on Spinoza as a Bible critic. Based on existing historiography, it parses the main relevant historical contexts in which Spinoza came to articulate his analysis of the Bible: the Sephardi community of Amsterdam, freethinking philosophers, and the Reformed Church. It concludes with a detailed examination of the Tractatus theologico-politicus, Spinoza’s major work of biblical criticism. Along the way I highlight themes for which Spinoza appealed to the biblical texts themselves: the textual unity of the Bible, and the biblical concepts of prophecy, divine election, and religious laws. The focus is on the biblical arguments for these propositions, and the philological choices that Spinoza made that enabled him to appeal to those specific biblical texts. This first chapter lays the foundation for the remainder of the book, which examines issues of biblical philology and interpretation discussed among the Dutch Reformed contemporaries of Spinoza.

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