The Law and the Prophets: A Study in Old Testament Canon Formation

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Owens, J Edward | Copyright information

STEPHEN B. CHAPMAN, The Law and the Prophets: A Study in Old Testament Canon Formation (FAT 27; TUbingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 2000). Pp. xvii + 356. DM 178.

In this revised version of his 1998 dissertation directed by C. R. Seitz at Yale University, Chapman challenges the linear and nomistic theory of OT canon formation in which the Law, Prophets, and Writings developed in successive stages. Against this position he proposes a different direction. For C. the subordination of the Prophets ...

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