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The Spirit of Biblical Law (Hardcover, New)
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The Spirit of Biblical Law (Hardcover, New)
Series: Spirit of the Laws
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In this study of the nature and sources of biblical law, Calum
Carmichael focuses on the intimate and little-appreciated
relationship between two components of the Bible, namely that the
legal material represents a form of commentary or extended
exposition of the narratives. After introducing his central views
and how they depart from the mainstream, Carmichael addresses the
Priestly material in Leviticus, exploring, for example, the theme
of incest and the Bible. Subsequent chapters cover such fundamental
topics of biblical law as the Decalogue; the formula "life for
life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth"; and the theme of life and
death. In each instance, parallels are drawn between specific laws
and narratives. Finally, Carmichael traces the influence of the
narratives of David's adultery and Saul's suicide on the
development of related laws. Approaching his topic from the basic
premise that any society's laws do not necessarily relate to its
practical problems, Carmichael challenges the long prevailing view
that the body of biblical laws and ethical rules grew up in
piecemeal fashion over many centuries, in reaction to specific
social problems as they arose. Rather, the laws are a work of
historical reconstruction, redacted during one relatively
concentrated period by Deuteronomic and Priestly lawgivers.
Conflating past, present, and future, these redactors embedded the
codes of law in the narratives to make what was for them an orderly
presentation of the historical life of ancient Israel. This
approach, says Carmichael, was driven by needs we can never fully
appreciate and underpinned by a very different conception of what
constitutes historical knowledge. Only when we relinquish modern
notions of historical writing can we comprehend the enormous
sophistication of the biblical authors' project.
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