사경(Tetrateuch)과 신명기에 나타나는 (나할라/기업)의 의미의 차이에 대한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to search the differences of the meaning of (inheritance/possession) between Tetrateuch and Deuteronomy. The words indicating the land of promise is various in Torah. But this paper only reviews as a expression of the land of promise. In Genesis, God gave the promise of the land to the three patriarchs, Abraham, Issac and Jacob. But in Genesis, the words indicating the land of promise are mainly . In Exodus, means the place to which God leads Israel or Israel itself as the people of God. Leviticus is the most important text that describes the land of promise in the Old Testament. But is scarcely appeared in Leviticus. Leviticus mainly uses . Once is used in 25:46, it means the hired workers or strangers who live in Israel. In Tetrateuch, Numbers the most frequently uses for example, in the story of the five daughters of Zelophehad. In Numbers 27 and 36, is used 21 times. But in Numbers it indicates a personal or familial inheritance(possession). In contrast, in Deuteronomy, indicates the land of promise especially “the land which the LORD your God is giving you(2nd person singular) as an inheritance to possess”(Deuteronomy 15:4-5). It is not a personal or familial dimension. , in Deuteronomy, is used to show the promise of the land for Israel as a whole community. What is of importance, is that this idea is related to the historical background of the period of Hezekiah. In the reign of Hezekiah North Israel perished and many people flowed into Judea. Hezekiah had an ambition to make one Israel. On the basis of the historical background, E.W. Nicholson affirms that Deuteronomy was written in the reign of Hezekiah. Therefore the desire of one Israel penetrates Deuteronomy. Naturally , in Deuteronmy, is an expression of the whole community to which God gave an inheritance to possess, and is a theological statement to justify the territorial expansion involving the North Israel in the period of Hezekiah.