An edition of Inventing God's law: how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi (2009)

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An edition of Inventing God's law: how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi (2009)

Inventing God's law

how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi

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Sources, Bible, Criticism, interpretation, Code of Hammurabi, Ancient Law, Law, Extra-canonical parallels, Book of the Covenant, Codex hammoerabi, 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament, The Ten Commandments, Exodus (bible book), Cuneiform inscriptions

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The basic thesis and background
Pt. 1. Primary evidence for dependence : sequential correspondences and date
The casuistic laws
The apodictic laws
Date and opportunity for the use of Hammurabi's and other cuneiform laws
Pt. 2. Compositional logic of the covenant code
Debt-slavery and the seduction of a maiden (Exodus 21:2-11; 22:15-16)
Homicide, injury, miscarriage, talion (Exodus 21:12, 18-27)
Child rebellion, kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, illicit sacrifice (Exodus 21:12-17; 22:17-19)
The goring ox and negligence (Exodus 21:28-36)
Animal theft, crop destruction, deposit, and burglary (Exodus 21:37-22:8)
Animal injury, death, and rental (Exodus 22:9-14)
The themes and ideology of the apodictic laws (Exodus 20:23-26; 21:1; 22:20-23:19)
Redactional growth in the apodictic laws and the covenant code's relationship to the Exodus narrative
Conclusions.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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222/.12066
Library of Congress
BS1245.52 .W75 2009, BS1245.52.W75 2009

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p. cm.

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OL23197664M
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9780195304756
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2009012890
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297149232
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9390885
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7024760

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