Bernard M. Levinson

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Bernard M. Levinson

Religious Studies

#1412

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#2673

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Biblical Studies

#155

World Rank

#195

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Bernard M. Levinson's Degrees

PhD Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley
Masters Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Religion University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Bernard Malcolm Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation, "The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation, and Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel; and is the co-editor of The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance. He has published extensively on biblical and ancient Near Eastern law and on the reception of biblical literature in the Second Temple period. His research interests extend to early modern intellectual history, constitutional theory, the history of interpretation, and literary approaches to biblical studies.

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Bernard M. Levinson's Published Works

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Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1999) (94)
Between the Covenant Code and Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty: Deuteronomy 13 and the Composition of Deuteronomy (2012) (62)
The reconceptualization of kingship in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History's transformation of Torah (2001) (61)
Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (2002) (30)
YOU MUST NOT ADD ANYTHING TO WHAT I COMMAND YOU : PARADOXES OF CANON AND AUTHORSHIP IN ANCIENT ISRAEL (2003) (28)
'The Right Chorale': Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008) (28)
The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (2007) (27)
REVELATION REGAINED: THE HERMENEUTICS OF ... AND ... IN THE TEMPLE SCROLL (2002) (25)
The "effected object" in contractual legal language: the semantics of "If you purchase a Hebrew slave" (Exod. xxi 2) (2006) (20)
The Manumission of Hermeneutics: The Slave Laws of the Pentateuch as a Challenge to Contemporary Pentateuchal Theory (2004) (19)
The First Constitution: Rethinking the Origins of Rule of Law and Separation of Powers in Light of Deuteronomy (2006) (18)
The Neo-Assyrian Origins of the Canon Formula in Deuteronomy 13:1 (2009) (17)
Is the Covenant Code an Exilic Composition? A Response to John Van Seters: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (2004) (13)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: Biblical Studies as the Meeting Point of the Humanities (2008) (13)
Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation, and Development (2006) (13)
The Birth of the Lemma: The Restrictive Reinterpretation of the Covenant Code's Manumission Law by the Holiness Code (Leviticus 25:44-46) (2005) (9)
Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty as the Source for the Canon Formula in Deuteronomy 13:1 (2010) (9)
Calum M. Carmichael's Approach to the Laws of Deuteronomy (1990) (7)
The formation of the Pentateuch : bridging the academic cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (2016) (7)
Man and his feline pet. (1972) (6)
Goethes analysis of Exodus 34 and its influence on Wellhausen: The Pfropfung of the documentary hypothesis (2002) (5)
Man, animal, nature. (1972) (5)
Textual Criticism, Assyriology, and the History of Interpretation: Deuteronomy 13:7a as a Test Case in Method (2001) (4)
A More Perfect Torah: At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll (2013) (4)
Reading the Bible in Nazi Germany: Gerhard von Rad's Attempt to Reclaim the Old Testament for the Church* (2008) (4)
Why is the Pentateuch unreadable? - Or, why are we doing this anyway? (2016) (4)
The Persian Imperial Authorization as Historical Problem and as Biblical Construct: A Plea for Differentiations in the Current Debate (2007) (3)
The Hermeneutics of Tradition in Deuteronomy: A Reply to J. G. McConville (2000) (3)
Recovering the Lost Original Meaning of vla tkhsh elyv (Deuteronomy 13:9) (1996) (3)
The Metamorphosis of Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad’s Attempt to Reclaim the Old Testament for the Church (2004) (3)
"This Is the Manner of the Remission": Implicit Legal Exegesis in 11QMelchizedek as a Response to the Formation of the Torah (2013) (3)
Women and Psalms: Toward an understanding of the role of women's prayer in the Israelite cult (1998) (2)
The Significance of Chiasm as a Structuring Device in the Hebrew Bible (2020) (2)
‘But You Shall Surely Kill Him!’: The Text-Critical and Neo-Assyrian Evidence for MT Deuteronomy 13:10.: Studien zum Deuteronomium (1995) (2)
The hermeneutics of innovation ; the impact of centralization upon the structure, sequence, and reformulation of legal material in Deuteronomy (1991) (2)
The Bible's Break with Ancient Political Thought to Promote Equality - 'It Ain’t Necessarily So' (2010) (2)
Welcome to the circus (1991) (1)
Deuteronomy’s Conception of Law as an “Ideal Type”: A Missing Chapter in the History of Constitutional Law (2005) (1)
Law and Legal Literature (2015) (1)
The Development of the Jewish Bible: Critical Reflections Upon the Concept of a 'Jewish Bible' and on the Idea of Its 'Development' (2012) (1)
The Limitations of ‘Resonance:’ A Response to Joshua Berman on Historical and Comparative Method (2013) (1)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: The Canon as Sponsor of Innovation (2008) (1)
Refining the Reconstruction of Col. 2 of the Temple Scroll (11QTa): The Turn to Digital Mapping and Historical Syntax (2016) (1)
Strategies for the reinterpretation of normative texts within the Hebrew Bible (2018) (1)
1 YOU MUST NOT ADD ANYTHING TO WHAT I COMMAND YOU (2007) (1)
1 YOU MUST NOT ADD ANYTHING TO WHAT I COMMAND YOU (2007) (1)
Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law (2006) (1)
The Formation of the Pentateuch (2016) (1)
Revisiting the “and” in Law and Covenant in the Hebrew Bible: What the Evidence from Tell Tayinat Suggests about the Relationship between Law and Religion in the Ancient Near East (2020) (1)
Post-Priestly additions in the Pentateuch: a survey of scholarship (2016) (1)
The right chorale (2008) (1)
How, When, Where, and Why Did the Pentateuch Become the Torah?: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and (2007) (1)
16 Was Jeremiah Invented? The Relation of an Author to a Literary Tradition. A Response to Reinhard G. Kratz (2016) (1)
'This is the Manner of the Remission': Legal Exegesis and Eschatological Syntax in 11QMelchizedek (2013) (0)
Essay review of Michael Fishbane, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology (2010) (0)
Convergences and divergences in Pentateuchal theory – the genesis and the goals of this volume (2016) (0)
Review of Jo Ann Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (2011) (0)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: The Phenomenon of Rewriting within the Hebrew Bible: A Bibliographic Essay on Inner-Biblical Exegesis in the History of Scholarship (2008) (0)
THE PURITY AND SANCTUARY OF THE BODY IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM. By Hannah K.Harrington. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 33. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. Pp. 419. €100.00. (2020) (0)
'Better that You Should Not Vow than that You Vow and Not Fulfill': Qoheleth's Use of Textual Allusion and the Transformation of Deuteronomy's Law of Vows (2014) (0)
The King James Bible at 400: Scripture, Statecraft, and the American Founding (2010) (0)
Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2013) (0)
Judge and Society in Antiquity (2005) (0)
Introduction: Did the Pentateuchal sources extend into the former prophets? (2016) (0)
Books Received (2009) (0)
La scoperta goethiana della versione ‘originale’ dei Dieci Comandamenti e la sua influenza sulla critica biblica: Il mito del particolarismo ebraico e dell’universalismo tedesco (2013) (0)
Der kreative Kanon (2012) (0)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: The Problem of Innovation within the Formative Canon (2008) (0)
Deuteronomy: An Ecumenical Study Bible. Fully Revised Fourth Ed (2010) (0)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: The Reworking of the Principle of Transgenerational Punishment: Four Case Studies (2008) (0)
Review of Martha T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2000) (0)
The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times (2013) (0)
The Case for Revision and Interpolation Within the Biblical Legal Corpora (2011) (0)
Introduction: Evidence for redactional activity in the Pentateuch (2016) (0)
The prophets after the law or the law after the prophets? – Terminological, biblical, and historical perspectives (2016) (0)
At the intersection of scribal training and theological profundity chiasm as an editorial Technique in the Primeval History and Deuteronomy (2020) (0)
A more perfect Torah (2013) (0)
Die Neuassyrischen Ursprünge Der Kanonformel in Deuteronomium 13,1 (The Origins of the Neo-Assyrian Canon Formula in Deuteronomy 13:1) (2012) (0)
The Seductions of the Garden: The Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique (2002) (0)
McConville’s Law and Theology in Deuteronomy (1990) (0)
Reading the bible in Nazi Germany (2008) (0)
The Covenant at Mount Sinai: The Argument of Revelation: Authority (2000) (0)
Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel: Rethinking the Relation between “Canon” and “Exegesis” (2008) (0)
Debbie's Story (1997) (0)
Exod 21:2; Deut 13:7a, 13:9, 13:10, and three essays interacting (separately) with M. Carmichael and with J.G. McConville on Deuteronomy (2011) (0)
The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Discovery of the “Original” Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism (2020) (0)
Book Review: Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology (2010) (0)

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