Description
Book SynopsisBy means of a threefold approach—typological analysis of literary forms, investigation of religious ideology, and study of didactic aims and methods—Weinfeld shows that the deuteronomic composition was the creation of scribal circles who began their work some time prior to the reign of Josiah and were still at work after the fall of Judah. Includes a 46-page detailed appendix on deuteronomic phraseology. This volume is a reprint of the 1972 Oxford edition.
Table of ContentsABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: THE TYPOLOGY OF DEUTERONOMIC COMPOSTION
I. THE ORATIONS
1. The Valedictory Address
2. The Prophetic Oration
3. The Liturgical Oration
4. The Military Oration
5. The Sitz im Leben of the Orations
II. TREATY FORM AND PHRASEOLOGY—AFFINITIES WITH THE ANCIENT NEAR-EASTERN TREATY FORMULAE
1. The Covenant of the Plains of Moab
2. The Curses
3. Law-Code versus Treaty
III. THE SCRIBAL ROLE IN THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF DEUTERONOMY
1. The Scribes and the ‘Book of the Torah’
2. Rhetorical Technique
PARTS TWO AND THREE
Introduction: the Relationship between the Priestly and Deuteronomic documents
PART TWO: DEMYTHOLOGIZATION AND SECULARIZATION
I. THE CONCEPT OF GOD AND THE DIVINE ABODE
II. SACRAL AND FESTAL OBSERVANCES
1. Sacrifice and Holy Donations
2. The Feasts
III. PURITY AND IMPURITY IN THE DEUTERONOMIC CONCEPTION OF HOLINESS
IV. SECULAR TRENDS IN DEUTERONOMY
1. The Judicial Reform
2. The Laws of Asylum
3. The Laws of Warfare
4. Sin and Punishment
PART THREE: DEUTERONOMIC LITERATURE AND WISDOM LITERATURE
I. WISDOM SUBSTRATA IN DEUTERONOMY AND DEUTERONOMIC LITERATURE
1. The Concept of Wisdom
2. Wisdom Content in Deuteronomy
3. The Fear of God
II. HUMANISM
III. DIDACTICISM
IV. THE DOCTRINE OF REWARD
1. Life and Good
2. The Possession of the Land
3. Theodicy
APPENDICES
A. Deuteronomic Phraseology
B. Hosea and Deuteronomy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ADDENDA
GLOSSARIES
INDEX OF SOURCES
INDEX OF SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
SUBJECT INDEX
