The Ten Commandments: Monuments of Memory, Belief, and Interpretation - Hardcover

Hogue, Timothy S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009366890 ISBN 13: 9781009366892

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The Decalogue, commonly known as the Ten Commandments, is usually analysed as a text. Within the Hebrew Bible, however, it is depicted as a monument– an artifact embedded in rituals that a community uses to define itself. Indeed, the phraseology, visual representations, and ritual practices of contemporary monuments used to describe the Ten Commandments imbue them with authority. In this volume, Timothy Hogue, presents a new translation, commentary, and literary analysis of the Decalogue through a comparative study of the commandments with inscribed monuments in the ancient Levant. Drawing on archaeological and art historical studies of monumentality, he grounds the Decalogue's composition and redaction in the material culture and political history of ancient Israel and ancient West Asia. Presenting a new inner-biblical reception history of the text, Hogue's book also provides a new model for dating biblical texts that is based on archaeological and historical evidence, rather than purely literary critical methods.

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Timothy Hogue is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1009366890
• ISBN 13: 9781009366892
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
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