Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222044
William S Morrow
ABSTRACT The compilations of instructions now found in Exod 20,24-23,12* and Deut 12,13-26,11* once circulated independently of their canonical contexts. They shared characteristics with Hittite administrative instruments called “royal instructions” or Dienstanweisungen in terms of syntax and the range of their administrative interests. As with certain Hittite examples, these proto-biblical texts did not originally end with covenant blessings or curses, although there are indications that they were composed for use in oath ratification ceremonies.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222039
P. Guillaume
ABSTRACT For the last two centuries, cultic centralization was considered the main theme in Deuteronomy. As long as the place chosen for Israel to meet was Jerusalem, the cultic centre was the temple renovated by King Josiah. The recent challenges of the validity of the Josianic hypothesis leave Deuteronomy centreless. To remediate this problem, Kåre Berge proposed either the Book of the Torah of Moses or the autonomous cities (“your gates”) as Deuteronomy’s centres. In light of Central Flow Theory, the alternative put forward here is that, as YHWH’s holy people Israel, is the centre around which the other people gravitate.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222037
Ehud Ben Zvi
ABSTRACT This article is about constructions of internal territorial space and its ideological implications. It discusses the lay of the land of the Israelite society that the literati “saw” when reading Deuteronomy. It focuses on the horizontal, non-hierarchical arrangement of an array of cities that so strongly characterizes the book. Then it addresses what the preference for this array suggests in terms of the polity that Deuteronomy conjures and how this preference relates to both central ideological tenets of the book and additional features of its imagined polity. Neither the imaginary landscape of the Israelite polity nor the polity itself evoked by Deuteronomy were consistent with those evoked by any of the “historiographical” works in Yehud. As a result, its literati had to assume either that such a landscape was never actually fulfilled in any period of the past or try to conform Deuteronomy’s landscape to other past-shaping, ideological texts (and related memories) that existed in their core repertoire, or both, in a complementary, balancing way.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222041
Magnar Kartveit
ABSTRACT The question discussed in the article is if there are possible links between the centralization command, as used in the Temple Scroll, and the inscriptions on Mount Gerizim. If this can be established, the next question is what character the city and temple of the Scroll have, and what this character implies for possible fronts which the Scroll has. Scholars commonly assume that the front is against Jerusalem and its temple, but have not had Mount Gerizim in mind. The city and sanctuary on that mountain existed when the Scroll took form. In this article, an attempt is made to draw Mount Gerizim into the picture.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222046
T. Stordalen
ABSTRACT This essay engages with Kåre Berge’s reflections on book religion in Deuteronomy. It first elaborates upon the concepts of religion and book religion and considers aspects of the literary and rhetorical anatomy of Deuteronomy. Then it argues that the salient point in Deuteronomy is not the text of the Torah as such, but the doing of what that text says. This orientation towards religious practice is squarely similar to adjacent strands of ancient Hebrew religion. Deuteronomy, however, adds certain religious practices, all of which required the use of (oral or written) texts. The essay argues that Deuteronomy had little potential to generate common religious change, but it could be seen as a force towards changes in religious leadership. Finally, the essay considers the concept of book religion—as a classificatory concept and as an analytical perspective.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222045
Benedetta Rossi
ABSTRACT Similarities and divergences between the Covenant Code (CC) and the Deuteronomic Code (DC) typically have been explored by focusing on content, leading to a proposed relationship of abrogation or revision and implementation. The communicative contexts, text pragmatics, and communicative intentionality of both the CC and DC have remained marginal to the debate. I shall argue that Deuteronomy takes up, expands, and improves communicative strategies already present in CC, with the underlying aim of transforming law into “preached law.” The transfer of preached law from orality to a written medium builds and reinforces the authoritative status of those who transmit it. Thus, a transfer of authority occurs: from the object (law) to its preachers (interpreters).
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222036
B. Becking
ABSTRACT This article about Exod 4,24-26 argues that God is willing to kill Moses since he had not circumcised his son. The ritual described in the textual unit is an example of circumcision as a life cycle ritual at the threshold of adulthood. Originally, circumcision in ancient Israel was not carried out on boys at the eighth day after birth. As a result of the construction of a new identity after the return from exile, the age of circumcision changed from early puberty to newborn. Exod 4,24-26 offers a glimpse at the earlier custom.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222043
C. Levin
ABSTRACT Gen 20 is the youngest example among the three wife-sister narratives in the Book of Genesis. This time the incident has been narrated according to the rules of the Torah. God reveals to Abimelech in a dream the law of Deut 22,22, and the king, following the precept of Deut 31,10-13, calls his servants together and proclaims it. The servants then fear God, as did the Israelites under Moses. Later editors saw in the narrative an interesting case of “guiltless guilt,” comparable to the problem of collective punishment dealt with in Gen 18,22b-33a. Even later, the narrative was interpreted as evidence of Abraham’s guilt. This allowed one to explain why God put Abraham to such a severe test in Gen 22. In the youngest phase of the narrative’s reworking, Abraham was finally portrayed as a prophet, similar to how Moses was considered a prophet in the late period.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222042
F. Landy
ABSTRACT The dialogue between Moses and God in Exodus 33 is one of the most mysterious and complex in the Hebrew Bible and raises acutely issues of metaphoricity, corporeality, and ineffability in relation to God. It turns on different meanings of the word “face” and thus on different conceptions of the deity in the Hebrew Bible. A close reading of the dialogue will be accompanied by considerations of metaphor. There are two issues in the text. One is the paradox that YHWH speaks to Moses “face to face,” yet his face cannot be seen. The second is the relationship of “face” to other terms in the passage, such as “goodness” and kavod. I will conclude by suggesting a resistance to metaphoricity, as to all cultic and mythic images.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2023.2222038
D. Edelman
ABSTRACT A review of the seven uses of šōṭēr in Deuteronomy and the eighteen occurrences elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible indicates that the best translation in all cases is “scribe.” By the Hellenistic period and the writing of Chronicles, šōṭerîm were classified as Levites, i.e. those “bound” by oath to royal or imperial service but based in principle in the temple, even though, like judges and possibly some gate-keepers, many worked “externally.” The temple cult is of little interest to those whose ideology is reflected in most of Deuteronomy. Nevertheless, it is possible to suggest that the Levites, who may contrast with the priests and the Levitical priests in the book, were conceived of more specifically as scribes, šōṭerîm, by profession.
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