The Social World of Deuteronomy

The Social World of Deuteronomy
Author: Don C Benjamin
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-04-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 022790625X

The book of Deuteronomy is not an orphan. It belongs to a diverse family of legal traditions and cultures in the world of the Bible. The Social World of Deuteronomy: A New Feminist Commentary brings these traditions and cultures to life and uses them to enrich our understanding and appreciation of Deuteronomy today. Don C. Benjamin uses social-scientific criticism to reconstruct the social institutions where Deuteronomy developed, as well as those that appear in its traditions. He uses feministcriticism to better understand and appreciate how powerful elite males in Deuteronomy view not only the women, daughters, mothers, wives and widows in their households but also their powerless children, liminal people, slaves, prisoners, outsiders, livestock and nature. Through the lens of feminist theory, Benjamin explores important aspects of the daily lives of these often overlooked peoples in ancient Israel.

Now Choose Life

Now Choose Life
Author: Gary Millar
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2000-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830872108

In this NSBT volume, Dr. J. Gary Millar provides a careful and perceptive analysis of Deuteronomy's ethical teaching set in the context of the book's theology. After discussing how Deuteronomy has been understood by other scholars, he sets out his own interpretation, dealing with its ethics in the light of key themes in the book: covenant, journey, law and the nations.

The Book within the Book

The Book within the Book
Author: Jean-Pierre Sonnet
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004495614

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.

Plato's Cretan City

Plato's Cretan City
Author: Glenn R. Morrow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691242852

Plato's Cretan City is a thorough investigation into the roots of Plato's Laws and a compelling explication of his ideas on legislation and social institutions. A dialogue among three travelers, the Laws proposes a detailed plan for administering a new colony on the island of Crete. In examining this dialogue, Glenn Morrow describes the contemporary Greek institutions in Athens, Crete, and Sparta on which Plato based his model city, and explores the philosopher's proposed regulations concerning property, the family, government, and the administration of justice, education, and religion. He approaches the Laws as both a living document of reform and a philosophical inquiry into humankind's highest earthly duty.

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy
Author: J. G. McConville
Publisher: IVP Academic
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2002-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

He gives due attention to historical issues where these bear on what can be known about the settings in which the text emerged. His dominant method is one that approaches Deutoronomy as a finished work."--Jacket.

Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses

Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses
Author: Dennis T. Olson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2005-01-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 159752056X

This overture provides the interested reader with a fresh approach to commentary writing, one that engages all the traditional concern with total coverage of the text in question, but with the added feature of uniting that commentary under a single set of larger working concerns. The first-time reader of Deuteronomy is introduced both to the standard critical issues and to the text itself, but within the context of a concern to understand the book's abiding theological legacy. Christopher R. Seitz, from the Editor's Foreword

Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448103916

Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home. As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkman’s chance to uncover his own path. Along the way, he will lose more than he could have ever imagined. Yet in return, he will discover something far more valuable than gold: his past, his true self, his life-long dream of flight. ‘A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story’ Daily Telegraph ‘Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life’ Marlon James INTRODUCED BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES **Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**

Mishneh Todah

Mishneh Todah
Author: Jeffrey H. Tigay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781575061566

Jeffrey H. Tigay, A. M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, master teacher and scholar extraordinaire, conservative rabbi and lifelong student of Torah receives due ovation in this exceptional volume, a tribute to his indelible impression on Jewish scholarship and pedagogy. The volume is arranged according to Professor Tigay's primary topics of interest: deuteronomic studies, ancient Israelite religion and its Near Eastern context, and ancient Israelite literary tradition. The reader will enjoy diverse studies such as "Gender Transformation and Transgression: Contextualizing the Prohibition of Cross-dressing in Deuteronomy 22:5," "The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job," and "Linen and the Linguistic Dating of P" and will value the erudition of scholars such as Moshe Greenberg, Emanuel Tov, Gary Rendsburg, William Hallo, and Baruch Levine. In the customary appreciations and throughout the volume, colleagues, students, and friends laud Professor Tigay's intellectual tenacity, relational warmth, pedagogical prowess, and devotion to Torah. A former student aptly speaks for those who know him best: "A scholar's immortality lies in his or her work. It rests too in his or her students and in the respect won from his or her colleagues. A Festschrift like this one for Jeff Tigay is merely a token of that legacy, the acknowledgment by his students and colleagues that the work is indeed worth celebrating." This legacy will surely be a boon and delight to the reader.

Social World of Ancient Israel, 1250-587 BCE

Social World of Ancient Israel, 1250-587 BCE
Author: Victor Harold Matthews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN:

The most refreshing and innovative approach to ancient Israelite society which I have ever read. . . . Matthews and Benjamin draw extensively and creatively on biblical and ancient Near Eastern literature as well as the newest work in anthropology. . . . this book fills a major need for a masterful synthesis of life in ancient Israel. " Mark Smith, St. Joseph s University