The Elders of the City: A Study of the Elders-Laws in Deuteronomy

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Vogt, Peter T | Copyright information

The Elders of the City: A Study of the Elders-Laws in Deuteronomy. By Timothy M. Willis. SBLMS 55. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001, 353 pp., $49.95.

In this important study, Willis examines five laws in Deuteronomy that describe or mandate the participation of city elders in community life. In the view of many earlier critics, the presence of elders in some laws in Deuteronomy demonstrated the progression of judicial practice from a system based on local elders to one ba...

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