This review was published by RBL ©2014 by the Society of Biblical Literature. For more information on obtaining a subscription to RBL, please visit http://www.bookreviews.org/subscribe.asp. RBL 04/2014 Dominik Markl, ed. The Decalogue and Its Cultural Influence Hebrew Bible Monographs 58 Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2013. Pp. xxii + 383. Hardcover. $110.00. ISBN 9781909697065. Bernhard Lang Berlin, Germany While it is notoriously difficult to sever the biblical text from its postbiblical interpretations in theology, literature, the arts, politics, and so on, this is exactly what historical-critical scholarship has been doing during the past two centuries—and quite successfully so. Now that a substantial body of critical biblical scholarship has accumulated, the discipline of biblical studies is beginning to rediscover the reception history of the Bible. Studying the impact the Bible has made is now generally felt to be important, but the area is not yet well established in scholarship. Things begin to improve, however. The very publication of the volume under review constitutes a step forward. In what follows I will summarize each of the twenty-one papers included in the volume and offer an occasional critical remark. Like the volume under review, I will begin with the contributions that comment on the origins and early history of the Ten Commandments. 1. Origins and Early History This is of course the subject with which biblical scholars are most familiar; accordingly, it is here that views tend to differ most widely. Did the recitation of the Decalogue belong to the liturgy of Shavuoth (the Festival of Weeks) in Second Temple times? In a paper published in 1990, Moshe Weinfeld suggested that this was indeed the case, while R. Langer (in paper 6) dismisses the idea as too hypothetical. Reconsidering Weinfeld’s