Wisdom-laws : a study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16

Wisdom-laws : a study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16 / Bernard S. Jackson.

Bernard Jackson explains how early biblical law differed from the binding rules of the courts in the present day. He shows that adjudication was originally a matter of divinely mediated fairness, while written laws used narrative images and literary devices in order to teach.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Bernard S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Bible. > Exodus > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Exodus
Jewish law.
Jewish law
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Judaism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Wisdom-Laws
  • Law and wisdom in biblical scholarship
  • Slavery
  • Homicide
  • Assault
  • The pregnant woman victim
  • Maltreatment of slaves
  • The goring ox
  • Theft
  • Agricultural delicts
  • "Bailment"
  • Seduction
  • Towards an institutional history of the mishpatim
  • From practical wisdom to literary artifice : towards a literary history of the mishpatim.

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