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Obeying the First Part of the Tenth Commandment / Michael D. Matlock in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 31/3 (March 2007)
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Titre : Obeying the First Part of the Tenth Commandment : Applications from the Levirate Marriage Law Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Michael D. Matlock, Auteur Année de publication : 2007 Article en page(s) : pp. 295-310. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Within the last thirty years, a handful of scholars have cogently argued on the basis of ancient Near Eastern law codes and literary structure that the legal applications in Deuteronomy 6-26 are structured in roughly the same sequence as the Ten Commandments in ch. 5. Even more pertinent for understanding the meaning of chs. 6-26 and the Decalogue, Dennis Olson argues for a correlative interpretation between the two legal corpora. The present study examines possible correlations between the first part of the tenth commandment (Deut. 5.21a) and the so-labeled ‘levirate marriage’ law (Deut. 25.5-10) to address whether levirate marriage is an institutionalized exception to the tenth commandment against desiring a neighbor’s wife or whether it is more properly viewed as a way to obey the commandment.
in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament > 31/3 (March 2007) . - pp. 295-310.[article] Obeying the First Part of the Tenth Commandment : Applications from the Levirate Marriage Law [texte imprimé] / Michael D. Matlock, Auteur . - 2007 . - pp. 295-310.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament > 31/3 (March 2007) . - pp. 295-310.
Résumé : Within the last thirty years, a handful of scholars have cogently argued on the basis of ancient Near Eastern law codes and literary structure that the legal applications in Deuteronomy 6-26 are structured in roughly the same sequence as the Ten Commandments in ch. 5. Even more pertinent for understanding the meaning of chs. 6-26 and the Decalogue, Dennis Olson argues for a correlative interpretation between the two legal corpora. The present study examines possible correlations between the first part of the tenth commandment (Deut. 5.21a) and the so-labeled ‘levirate marriage’ law (Deut. 25.5-10) to address whether levirate marriage is an institutionalized exception to the tenth commandment against desiring a neighbor’s wife or whether it is more properly viewed as a way to obey the commandment.