Wesen und Herkunft des Apodiktischen Rechts

Autorentext

Erhard S. Gerstenberger is professor of Old Testament emeritus at the University of Marburg. Among his many publications are Der bittende Mensch (1980/2010), Psalms, Part 1: With an Introduction to Cultic Poetry (1988), Yahweh--the Patriarch (1996), Leviticus (1996), and Psalms, Part 2, and Lamentations, 2001), Theologies in the Old Testament (2002), and Israel in the Persian Period (2012).

Klappentext

In this brilliant work, Gerstenberger examines the Israelite legal tradition. He argues against the thesis that the so-called apodicitic laws in the Old Testament were distinctively Israelite, a single form, or originating in the liturgy and covenant-making. Using the story of Jonadab and the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35 and the incest prohibitions in Leviticus 18, the author argues that the setting in life of prohibitions was the ethos of the tribe. The literary settings in the Covenant Code, Holiness Code, and Deuteronomic are all secondary uses.