Bruce Wells

Bruce Wells is an Associate Professor in Near Eastern Studies at the University fo Texas, who specialises in Ancient Mesopotamian and Old Testament Law.
== Known work ==
* The Law of Testimony in the Pentateuchal Codes - PhD-Thesis
* Sex, Lies, and Virginal Rape: The Slandered Bride and False Accusation in Deuteronomy
* The Covenant Code and Near Eastern Legal Traditions: A Response to David P. Wright
* What Is Biblical Law? A Look at Pentateuchal Rules and Near Eastern Practice
* Pre-Trial Negotiations: The Case of the Run-Away Slave in Dar. 53 - with Cornelia Wunsch and F. Rachel Magdalene
* The Cultic versus the Forensic: Judahite and Mesopotamian Judicial Procedures in the First Millennium BCE
* The Hated Wife in Deuteronomic Law
* Competing or Complementary? Judges and Elders in Biblical and Neo- Babylonian Law
* The Assertory Oath in Neo-Babylonian and Persian Administrative Texts - with Cornelia Wunsch and F. Rachel Magdalene
* First Wives Club: Divorce, Demotion, and the Fate of Leah in Genesis 29
* The Grammar of the Neo- Babylonian Assertory Oath - with Cornelia Wunsch and F. Rachel Magdalene
* Liability in the Priestly Texts of the Hebrew Bible
* The Long View: From Hammurabi to the Bible to the Rabbis
* Sex Crimes in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible
* The Interpretation of Legal Traditions in Ancient Israel
* Punishments in the Torah and Their Rationale
* Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts - with Cornelia Wunsch and F. Rachel Magdalene
* The Purpose of the Covenant and Deuteronomic Codes and the Insights of Eckart Otto
* Reconstructing the History of a Legal Provision
* Temple Loyalty and the Loyalty Oath in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
* Death in the Garden of Eden
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