Table of Contents

Part I. THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
Yair Hoffman, The Biblical Status of the Decalogue.

Ed Greenstein, The Rhetoric of the Ten Commandments.

Asnat Bar Tour, Seeing Thunder: Narrative Images of the Ten Commandments.

Gottfried Nebe, The Decalogue with Paul, especially in his Letter to the Romans.

Peter Wick, "You shall not murder", "You shall not commit adultery". Theological and anthropological radicalization in the letter of James and in the Sermon on the Mount.

Part II. LATER DEVELOPMENTS
Aharon Oppenheimer, Removing the Decalogue from the Shem‘a and Phylacteries: the historical implications.

Wilhelm Geerlings, The Decalogue with Augustine.

Henning Graf Reventlow, The Ten Commandments in Martin Luther's Catechisms.

Yoram Jacobson, The Meaning and Significance of the Commandments according to the Mystical World of Habad Hasidim.

Part III. SYSTEMATIC REFLECTIONS
Christofer Frey, Natural Right, Law, Commandment - Conditions for the Reception of the Decalogue since the Reformation.

Guenter Thomas, The Ten Commandments in an Ethics of Risk.

Franz Heinrich Beyer / Michael Waltemathe, The Good , the Bad and the Undecided. Cultural Echoes of the Decalogue. An educational perspective

Promotional Information

This collection of papers arrives from the eighth annual symposium between the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Ruhr, Bochum held in Bochum, June 2007. The general theme of the Decalogue was examined in its various uses by both Jewish and Christian traditions throughout the centuries to the present.

About the Author

H. Graf Reventlow, was an Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at University of the Ruhr, Bochum. His most important recent publication is the book series Epochen der Bibelauslegung (4 vol.). English translation in preparation.

Y. Hoffman is an Emeritus Professor of Bible at Tel-Aviv  University. He has published books on various biblical topics such as: of the Exodus; Prophecies Against Foreign nations; The book of Job; recently he has published a  2 volumes'  commentary on the Book of Jeremiah.

Reviews

Mentioned in Hebrew Studies, Volume LII.