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Author : Joel Korytko
Release : 2022
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Book Synopsis Death of the Covenant Code by : Joel Korytko
Download or read book Death of the Covenant Code written by Joel Korytko. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Korytko
Release : 2023-10-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law by : Joel Korytko
Download or read book Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law written by Joel Korytko. This book was released on 2023-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many laws in the Old Greek translation of the Covenant Code do not say the same thing as the Hebrew text. In the past, various idiosyncrasies in the Greek translation of laws that involve the death penalty had been glossed over and considered stylistic variations or grammatical outliers. However, when the text-linguistic features of the Greek translation are compared to contemporary literary, documentary, and legal Greek sources, new readings emerge: cursing a parent is no longer punishable by death; a law about bestiality becomes a law about animal husbandry; the authority of certain legal commands is deregulated. This work explores these and other new readings in comparison with contemporary Greco-Egyptian law.
Author : John Van Seters
Release : 2002-11-21
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis A Law Book for the Diaspora by : John Van Seters
Download or read book A Law Book for the Diaspora written by John Van Seters. This book was released on 2002-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation for all study of biblical law is the assumption that the Covenant Code is the oldest legal code in the Hebrew Bible and that all other laws are revisions of that code. This book sets forth the radical hypothesis that those laws in the covenant code that are similar to Deuteronomy and the Holiness Code are in fact later than both of these, and therefore can't be taken as the foundation of Hebrew Law.
Author : David P. Wright
Release : 2009-09-03
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Inventing God's Law by : David P. Wright
Download or read book Inventing God's Law written by David P. Wright. This book was released on 2009-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.
Author : Dennis T. Olson
Release : 2005-01-26
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses by : Dennis T. Olson
Download or read book Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses written by Dennis T. Olson. This book was released on 2005-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overture provides the interested reader with a fresh approach to commentary writing, one that engages all the traditional concern with total coverage of the text in question, but with the added feature of uniting that commentary under a single set of larger working concerns. The first-time reader of Deuteronomy is introduced both to the standard critical issues and to the text itself, but within the context of a concern to understand the book's abiding theological legacy. Christopher R. Seitz, from the Editor's Foreword
