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Inventing God's law: how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi
2009, Oxford University Press
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0195304756 9780195304756
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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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