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Approaches to the 'Chosen Place'

Accessing a Biblical Concept

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Approaches to the 'Chosen Place'

Accessing a Biblical Concept

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Deuteronomy's command to restrict cultic practice to one "chosen place" has occupied a central position in scholars' understandings of the book and their reconstruction of Israelite political and religious history. The debates about the date of Deuteronomy, its proposed connections to "Josiah's reform", and, most profoundly, the "Deuteronomistic History (DH) hypothesis" have dominated study of the idea of "chosen place". These debates have, to a large extent, determined how we read Deuteronomy and the Former Prophets in general. Through a reading of key texts from these corpora, this book provides a new, textually grounded, perspective of the "chosen place."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Chosen Place and Chosen City

Chapter 3: 'Centralization' in Deuteronomy 12

Chapter 4: 'Jerusalem' in the Former Prophets

Chapter 5: The Cultic Context of the 'Chosen Place'

Chapter 6: 'Centralization' and the Story of Josiah's Reform: Is Deuteronomy 12 Central to Josiah?

Chapter 7: Divine Election as a Principle of Authority

Chapter 8: Kings Revisited: Kingship in Deuteronomy and the Former Prophets

Chapter 9: Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

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Published 10 Apr 2014
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9780567547149
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions Not specified
Series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Rannfrid I. Thelle

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