Description:
Examines the evolution, interpretation, and application of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible regarding intermarriage in order to recover and describe the logical and exegetical operations by which biblical laws could be applied to situations, circumstances, and persons that lie outside the sphere of their explicit content.
Brief description: William A. Tooman is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Director of Research of the Institute of Bible, Theology, and Hermeneutics at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Standards of (In)coherence in Ancient Jewish Literature and Gog of Magog: Reuse of Scripture and Compositional Technique in Ezekiel 38-39 in addition to numerous other books and articles.
Review Quotes:
"Tooman has convincingly shown that there is a continuing restriction of marriage partners available to Judeans over the books of the Hebrew Bible beginning with Genesis and ending with Ezra-Nehemiah."
--Lisbeth S. Fried Review of Biblical Literature