TY - BOOK ID - 3030269 TI - Marriage as a covenant: a study of biblical law and ethics governing marriage developed from the perspective of Malachi PY - 1994 VL - 52 SN - 9004099778 9004275762 9789004099777 9789004275768 PB - Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Marriage KW - Covenants KW - Biblical teaching. KW - 224.99 KW - 221.08*2 KW - -Covenants KW - -#GROL:SEMI-221<08> Supp 52 KW - Agreements KW - Married life KW - Matrimony KW - Nuptiality KW - Wedlock KW - Love KW - Sacraments KW - Betrothal KW - Courtship KW - Families KW - Home KW - Honeymoons KW - Malachia KW - Theologie van het Oude Testament: moraal; ethica; juridica Israelis; vroomheid KW - Biblical teaching KW - 221.08*2 Theologie van het Oude Testament: moraal; ethica; juridica Israelis; vroomheid KW - 224.99 Malachia KW - #GROL:SEMI-221<08> Supp 52 KW - Bible. KW - Malachi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Malachias (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Maleachi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Marriage - Biblical teaching. KW - Covenants - Biblical teaching. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3030269 AB - This book focuses on the interpretation of Malachi 2:10-16, which censures the lax marital practice of its contemporaries. In particular, Hugenberger investigates Malachi's identification of marriage as a 'covenant' in response to recent scholarly challenges to this identification. Taking the issues raised by Malachi as his point of departure, Hugenberger examines the nature of covenant and oath (including verba solemnia and oath-signs), and, in light of these findings, explores the theory of marriage implied elsewhere in the Old Testament. Included in this investigation are an analysis of the concentric literary structure of Malachi and a study of the Old Testament's ethical perspectives on divorce, polygamy, and sexual fidelity. An extensive bibliography and indices complete the book. ER -