Johnson, Dylan R.
2022.
The Torah and the King: Zedekiah’s Edict (Jer 34) and Deuteronomistic redaction.
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
134
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, pp. 40-54.
10.1515/zaw-2022-0002
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaw-2022-0002
Abstract
The notion that the Torah represents a supervening »rule of law« that circumscribes the political and legal authority of the king stems from a particular Deuteronomistic scribal circle that worked long after the Davidic monarchy had ended. Using Zedekiah’s edict (Jer 34:8–22) as a case study, this paper examines how Deuteronomistic redactors recast the final normative legal act of an independent Judahite king as his pious application of Pentateuchal law.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Published Online |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | History, Archaeology and Religion |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PJ Semitic |
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter |
| ISSN: | 0044-2526 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 20 October 2022 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2023 10:33 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153566 |
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