Wisdom-laws : a study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16
Jackson, Bernard SAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bible.
Jewish law
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Judaism