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Homicide in the Biblical World analyses the treatment of homicide
in the Hebrew Bible and demonstrates that it is directly linked to
the unique social structure and religion of ancient Israel. Close
parallels between biblical law and ancient Near Eastern law are
evident in the laws of the ox that gored and the pregnant woman who
is assaulted, but, when the total picture of the process by which
homicide was adjudicated comes into view, what is most noticeable
is how little of it is similar to ancient Near Eastern law. This
book reconstructs biblical law from both legal texts and narrative
texts and analyses both the law collections and documents from
actual legal cases from the ancient Near East.
Homicide in the Biblical World analyses the treatment of homicide
in the Hebrew Bible and demonstrates that it is directly linked to
the unique social structure and religion of ancient Israel. Close
parallels between biblical law and ancient Near Eastern law are
evident in the laws of the ox that gored and the pregnant woman who
is assaulted, but, when the total picture of the process by which
homicide was adjudicated comes into view, what is most noticeable
is how little of it is similar to ancient Near Eastern law. This
book reconstructs biblical law from both legal texts and narrative
texts and analyses both the law collections and documents from
actual legal cases from the ancient Near East.
Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations
investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a
crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores
how the Exodus has functioned as the primary model from which Jews
have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding.
It probes how and why the Exodus has continued to be vital to Jews
throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience. As an
interdisciplinary work, it incorporates contributions from a range
of Jewish Studies scholars in order to explore the Exodus from a
variety of vantage points. It addresses such topics as: the Jewish
reception of the biblical text of Exodus; the progressive unfolding
of the Exodus in the Jewish interpretive tradition; the religious
expression of the Exodus as ritual in Judaism; and the Exodus as an
ongoing lens of self-understanding for both the State of Israel and
contemporary Judaism. The essays are guided by a common goal: to
render comprehensible how the re-envisioning of Exodus throughout
the unfolding of the Jewish experience has enabled it to function
for thousands of years as the central motif for the Jewish people.
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