Between Law and Narrative : : The Method and Function of Abstraction / / Bernon P. Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lee, Bernon P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies ; 51
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; CHAPTER ONE. READING NARRATIVE AND LAW --; CHAPTER TWO. READINGS IN NARRATIVE AND LAW: THE SIMPLE CASES --; CHAPTER THREE. READINGS IN NARRATIVE AND LAW: THE COMPLICATED CASES --; CHAPTER FOUR. SYNTAX AND LAW IN LEVITICUS AND NUMBERS: METHOD AND CASES --; CHAPTER FIVE. READING AND LIVING: THE RELEVANCE OF ABSTRACTION --; REFERENCE LIST --; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236182; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236182
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bernon P. Lee.

Aside from being the content of speeches by characters in narrative, how do passages of laws in the Pentateuch interact with the surrounding narratives? This book proposes that certain passages of law in Leviticus and Numbers offer direction for the interpretation of adjacent segments of narrative. This 'direction' may serve to emphasize select themes and concepts in narrative. Alternatively, it may misdirect readers, or suggest alternative options to more accessible interpretations for a stretch of narrative.