The Decalogue and its cultural influence / edited by Dominik Markl.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [2013]
  • ©2013
Description
xxii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on the Decalogue's cultural radiance ; The ten words revealed and revised: the origins of law and legal hermeneutics in the Pentateuch / Dominik Markl
  • The reception history of the Decalogue through early translations: the case of the Septuagint, Peshitta, and Targums / Innocent Himbaza
  • The Decalogue in Pseudo-Phocylides and Syriac Menander: 'unwritten laws' or Decalogue reception? / J. Cornelis de Vos
  • The Decalogue in the New Testament Apocrypha: a preliminary overview and some examples / Hermut Löhr
  • The Decalogue in Western theology from the church fathers to the thirteenth century / Miguel Lluch Baixauli
  • The Decalogue in Jewish liturgy / Ruth Langer
  • Vernacular treatments of the Ten Commandments in Anglo-Saxon England / Aaron J. Kleist
  • The Ten Commandments in the Ethiopic tradition / Ralph Lee
  • Thomas Aquinas on the Ten Commandments and the natural law / Randall B. Smith
  • The dissemination of the Decalogue in English and lay responses to its promotion in early modern English Protestantism / Ian Green
  • Repurposing the Decalogue in Reformation England / Jonathan Willis
  • The reception of the Decalogue in Protestant catechisms / Hans-Jürgen Fraas
  • The Decalogue and the moral manual tradition: from Trent to Vatican II / James F. Keenan
  • The Decalogue in American catechisms of the sixteenth century / Luis Resines
  • The Decalogue in late medieval and early modern imagery: catechetical purpose and theological implications / Veronika Thum
  • 'The law of ten commandments': William Blake and the Decalogue / Christopher Rowland
  • Joseph Haydn's Die heiligen zehn Gebote als Canons and Sigismund Neukomm's Das Gesetz des alten Bundes, oder die Gesetzgebung auf Sinaï: exemplification of changes in musical settings of the Ten Commandments during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Luciane Beduschi
  • The law and the artist in the age of extremes: on Thomas Mann's Das Gesetz / Gerhard Lauer
  • The Decalogue: the scholarly tradition critiqued / David J.A. Clines
  • The reception of the Decalogue in film: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue / Lloyd Baugh
  • The Ten Commandments and the problem of legal transplants in contemporary America / Steven Wilf.
ISBN
  • 9781909697065 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1909697060 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC
861634973
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