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This book examines the doctrine of transgenerational punishment found in the Decalogue - the idea that God punishes sinners vicariously, extending the punishment due them to three or four generations of their progeny. Although a 'God-given' law, the unfairness of punishing innocent people in this way was clearly recognized in ancient Israel. A series of inner-biblical and post-biblical responses to the rule demonstrates that later writers were able to criticize, reject, and replace this doctrine with the notion of individual retribution. Supporting further study, it includes a valuable bibliographical essay on the distinctive approach of inner-biblical exegesis, showing the contributions of European, Israeli, and North American scholars. This Cambridge release represents a major revision and expansion of the French edition, L'Herméneutique de l'innovation: Canon et exégèse dans l'Israël biblique, nearly doubling its length with extensive content and offering alternative perspectives on debates about canonicity, textual authority, and authorship.

Punishment --- Punishment (Jewish law) --- God (Judaism) --- Judaism --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Righteousness. --- History of doctrines. --- History --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Historiography. --- #GGSB: Bijbel --- #GGSB: Theologie (O.T.) --- 221.08*2 --- 296*52 --- 348.96 --- 348.96 Recht in het judaisme. Joods godsdienstig recht --- Recht in het judaisme. Joods godsdienstig recht --- 296*52 Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora --- Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora --- 221.08*2 Theologie van het Oude Testament: moraal; ethica; juridica Israelis; vroomheid --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: moraal; ethica; juridica Israelis; vroomheid --- Jewish law --- Penalties (Criminal law) --- Penology --- Corrections --- Impunity --- Retribution --- Justice of God --- Righteousness --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Jews --- Justice --- Attributes --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Bijbel --- Theologie (O.T.) --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Punishment - Religious aspects - Judaism. --- God (Judaism) - Righteousness. --- God (Judaism) - History of doctrines. --- Judaism - History - To 70 A.D.

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The historical-critical method that characterizes academic biblical studies too often remains separate from approaches that stress the history of interpretation, which are employed more frequently in the area of Second Temple or Dead Sea Scrolls research. Inaugurating the new series, Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, A More Perfect Torah explores a series of test-cases in which the two methods mutually reinforce one another.The volume brings together two studies that investigate the relationship between the composition history of the biblical text and its reception history at Qumran and in rabbinic literature. The Temple Scroll is more than the blueprint for a more perfect Temple. It also represents the attempt to create a more perfect Torah. Its techniques for doing so are the focus of part 1, entitled “Revelation Regained: The Hermeneutics of KI and ‘IM in the Temple Scroll.” This study illuminates the techniques for marking conditional clauses in ancient Near Eastern literature, biblical law, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also draws new attention to the relationship between the Temple Scroll’s use of conditionals and the manuscript’s organized spacing system for marking paragraphs.Part 2 is entitled “Reception History as a Window into Composition History: Deuteronomy’s Law of Vows as Reflected in Qoheleth and the Temple Scroll.” The law of vows in Deut 23:22–24 is difficult in both its syntax and its legal content. The difficulty is resolved once it is recognized that the law contains an interpolation that disrupts the original coherence of the law. The reception history of the law of vows in Numbers 20, Qoh 5:4–7, 11QTemple 53:11–14, and Sipre Deuteronomy confirms the hypothesis of an interpolation. Seen in this new light, the history of interpretation offers a window into the composition history of the biblical text.

Jewish law --- Hebrew language --- Vows (Jewish law) --- Rabbinical literature --- Interpretation and construction. --- Syntax. --- History and criticism. --- Bible. --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Jerusalem scrolls --- ʻAin Fashka scrolls --- Jericho scrolls --- Scrolls, Dead Sea --- Qumrân scrolls --- Rękopisy z Qumran --- Shikai bunsho --- Megilot Midbar Yehudah --- Dodezee-rollen --- Kumránské rukopisy --- Documentos de Qumrán --- Textos de Qumrán --- Rollos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscritos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscrits de la mer Morte --- Dödahavsrullarna --- Kumranin kirjoitukset --- Kuolleenmeren kirjoitukset --- Qumranhandskrifterna --- Qumranin kirjoitukset --- Qumran Caves scrolls --- Deuteronomium (Book of the Old Testament) --- Deuteronomy (Book of the Old Testament) --- Devarim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kitāb-i Divārīm (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shinmeiki (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Tathniyah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sinmyŏnggi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tas̲niyah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tathniyah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.4 --- Syntax --- Interpretation and construction --- History and criticism --- Deuteronomium --- Bible. -- Deuteronomy -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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This book presents twelve selected investigations of textual composition, interpretation, revision, and transmission. With these studies, Bernard Levinson draws on the literary forebears of biblical law in cuneiform literature and its reinterpretation in the Second Temple period to provide the horizon of ancient Israelite legal exegesis. The volume makes a sustained argument about the nature of textuality in ancient Israel: Israelite scribes were sophisticated readers, authors, and thinkers who were conscious of their place in literary and intellectual history, even as they sought to renew and transform their cultural patrimony in significant ways. Originally published over a decade and a half, the significantly revised and updated studies gathered here explore the connections between law and narrative, show the close connections between Deuteronomy and the Neo-Assyrian loyalty oath tradition, address the literary relationship of Deuteronomy and the Covenant Code, reflect on important questions of methodology, and explore the contributions of the Bible to later Western intellectual history. The volume offers essential reading for an understanding of the Pentateuch and biblical law.

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Judaism --- History --- Bible. --- Canonical criticism --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.1 --- Octateuch. Heptateuch. Hexateuch. Pentateuch. Boeken van Mozes --- Chumash --- Five Books of Moses --- Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah --- Ḥumash --- Kitāb-i Muqqadas --- Mose Ogyŏng (Book of the Old Testament) --- Pentateuch --- Pi︠a︡toknizhīe Moiseevo --- Sefer Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah --- Tawrāh --- Torà (Pentateuch) --- Torah (Pentateuch) --- Tʻoris xutʻcigneuli --- Ureta --- תורה --- Haftarot --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. - Congresses.

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"This book examines the development of institutionalized prayer in ancient Israel at a crucial time in the history of Western civilization: from the period of the Qumran writings, in the last three centuries BCE, through to the rabbinic period, after 70 CE. It explores the shift from sacrificial worship by priests to abstract, unmediated, direct approaches to the deity by laypeople. It demonstrates the transition from voluntary, freely composed prayers to obligatory prayers with fixed texts. The study shows how Qumran and Samaritan prayer contrast with rabbinic prayer, shedding light on Jewish customs before the rabbinic reform." --back cover

Prayer --- Public worship --- Judaism --- History