The Book within the Book
Writing in Deuteronomy
Seiten
1997
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-10866-0 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-10866-0 (ISBN)
This volume describes the emergence of written communication in Deuteronomy, and carefully examines the poetics of powerful analogy: Deuteronomy is a book that tells of the birth of a book - Moses' Torah book.
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.
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.
Jean-Pierre Sonnet, S.J., Ph.D. (1996) in Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, is Associate Professor at the Institut d'Études Théologiques in Brussels. He has published La parole consacrée (Peeters, 1984), and several articles on the literary approach to the Hebrew Bible.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.1997 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Biblical Interpretation Series ; 14 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 720 g |
| Einbandart | Leinen |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-10866-1 / 9004108661 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-10866-0 / 9789004108660 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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