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Observations on Judah’s Social and Economic History and the Dating of the Laws in Deuteronomy

2009; University of Alberta; Volume: 9; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5508/jhs.2009.v9.a18

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Ernst Axel Knauf,

Ancient Near East History

Nadav Na’aman’s recent dating of the Deuteronomic Law by social history is methodologically seminal, even if I disagree with the substance of his argument. In this article, I advance the case that the care of Deuteronomy for the ‘displaced Judahite” (גר) fits the 6th century much better than the 7th, as Na’aman argues.