Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code and a Response to my Critics

Author: Van Seters John  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 0901-8328

Source: Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, Vol.21, Iss.1, 2007-11, pp. : 5-28

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Abstract

After I published a book on the Covenant Code (A Law Book for the Diaspora, 2003), in which I challenged the early dating of CC in comparison with the Deuteronomic Code and the Holiness Code, three leading scholars of biblical law (Bernard Jackson, Bernard Levinson and Eckart Otto) wrote lengthy reviews in which they attacked my views in defense of the status quo, namely, the priority in dating of CC before D and HC. Each from his own perspective and methodology has brought forward his strongest arguments against my "revolutionary" views, so that this response to my critics should represent a fair test as to my views on the Covenant Code and provide biblical scholarship with a means by which to judge the merits of the case.