Mercy and Covenant in Exodus 34:6-7

Rebellion, Presence, and Covenant: a Study in Exodus 32-34 Dale

THE thesis of this paper is that the narrative of Exodus 32-34 is a basic unity, that it is more likely to stem from one original hand than from a number of contributors plus the final redactor, and that the connections and materials of the narrative itself reveal and support such a unity. There is no claim here that difficulties are non-existent--only that a real basic unity inheres in the nar...

Tender Mercy

If you are an Englishman you will begin by being irritated by Mr. Kaufman?I almost wrote " by having Mr. Kaufman irritate you "?such is the obtrusiveness of the American idiom when the title page has given you no inkling Mr. Kaufman is not London based. But this mere pettifog that carps. The main irritation is the slow build-up of the tale. Mr. Kaufman is in no mood to jag his backcloth with ey...

Wisdom and Covenant : Revisiting Zimmerli

Should you turn to Choon-Leong Seow's staff profile on the Princeton Seminary website you will find a brief precis of his view on the idiosyncratic nature of Wisdom literature (WL) when compared to the rest of the OT. The website tells us that 'The Old Testament's wisdom literature holds a particular interest for [Seow], in part because he r(qards it as distinctive for the complete absence of t...

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Law and theology in the Covenant Code

The paper considers the relationship between law and theology within the Covenant Code. The first part o f the discussion reviews the influence o f the “divine law * hypotheses o f Alt and Noth, on contemporary scholarship. Particular reference is made to the consequences which Weinfeld draws from this hypothesis, fo r his view of the secularisation process in the Deuteronomic code. Subsequentl...