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5 - The Narrative Context of the Collections

from Part II - The Biblical Legal Collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2024

By
Simeon Chavel
Edited by
Bruce Wells
Bruce Wells
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

This chapter examines the narrative scheme surrounding each collection and how the god Yhwh is drawn as a character in each source, speaking in an array of cadences and registers that conjure their associated types of speakers. Rather than biblical law making Israelite law into divine speech, biblical literature presents all forms of divine speech as fully compelling law.

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characterizationimplied audiencevoicingdivine speech
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The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible , pp. 95 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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