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The Body as Property - Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law (Paperback)
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The Body as Property - Physical Disfigurement in Biblical Law (Paperback)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The Body As Property indicates that physical disfigurement
functioned in biblical law to verify legal property acquisition,
when changes in the status of dependents were formalized. It is
based on the reality the cuneiform script, in particular, was
developed in Sumer and Mesopotamia for the purpose of record
keeping: to provide legal proof of ownership where the inscription
of a tablet evidenced the sale, or transfer, of property.
Legitimate property acquisition was as important in biblical law,
where physical disfigurements marked dependents, in a similar way
that the veil or the head covering identified a wife or concubine
in ancient Assyrian and Judean societies. This is primarily
substantiated in the accounts of prescriptive disfigurements:
namely circumcision and the piercing of a slave's ear, both of
which were required only when a son, or slave, was acquired
permanently. It is further argued that legal entitlement was
relevant also to the punitive disfigurements recorded in Exodus
21:22-24, and Deuteronomy 25:11-12, where the physical violation of
women was of concern solely as an infringement of male property
rights.
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