Description: "Bernard Levinson's book is a major study. He demonstrates the radicalbreak with the past and the way in which the authors or composers of Deuteronomynot only transformed religion and society in ancient Israel but also radicallyrevised its literary history. The power and accomplishment of the Deuteronomicmovement has rarely been so clearly demonstrated. Levinson's work is aclarification of the way in which hermeneutics is not something that starts withthe interpreter's handling of the canonical text but is a process by which thecanonical text itself came into being. He shows how the new text subverts anddominates older texts in behalf of a radical cultural and religioustransformation. With this book, Levinson places himself in the front rank ofDeuteronomy scholars."--Patrick D. Miller, Charles P. Haley Professor of OldTestament Exegesis and Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

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