| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 589 pages) |
| Contents |
1. . Introduction: The Basic Thesis and Background; PART I: PRIMARY EVIDENCE FOR DEPENDENCE; SEQUENTIAL CORRESPONDENCES AND DATE; 2. The Casuistic Laws; 3. The Apodictic Laws; 4. Date and Opportunity for the Use of Hammurabi's and Other Cuneiform Laws; PART II: COMPOSITIONAL LOGIC OF THE COVENANT CODE; 5. Debt-Slavery and the Seduction of a Maiden (Exodus 21:2-11; 22:15-16); 6. Homicide, Injury, Miscarriage, Talion (Exodus 21:12, 18-27); 7. Child Rebellion, Kidnapping, Sorcery, Bestiality, Illicit Sacrifice (Exodus 21:12-17; 22:17-19); 8. The Goring Ox and Negligence (Exodus 21:28-36); 9. Animal Theft, Crop Destruction, Deposit, and Burglary (Exodus 21:37-22:8); 10. Animal Injury, Death, and Rental (Exodus 22:9-14); 11. The Themes and Ideology of the Apodictic Laws (Exodus 20:23-26; 21:1; 22:20-23:19); 12. Redactional Growth in the Apodictic Laws and the Covenant Code's Relationship to the Exodus Narrative; 13. Conclusions; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
David Wright argues that the so-called Covenant Collection of the Torah (Exodus 20:23-23:19) is chiefly the work of a single author, is the result of intellectual interaction with the author's sources & it may have had a politically ideological purpose, somewhat similar to that of the Laws of Hammurabi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Exodus, XX, 23-XXIII, 19 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Code of Hammurabi. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92032847
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Bible. Old Testament -- Extra-canonical parallels
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Code of Hammurabi fast |
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Law, Ancient -- Sources
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Law -- Middle East -- Sources
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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Extra-canonical parallels
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Law
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Law, Ancient
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199719525 |
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0199719527 |
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9780195304756 |
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0195304756 |
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