Inventing God's law
Subtitle: how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi
By: David P. Wright.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9780195304756
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Exodus XX, 23-XXIII, 19 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Code of Hammurabi; Bible. -- O.T. -- Extra-canonical parallels; Law, Ancient -- Sources; Law -- Middle East -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Description: David Wright argues that the so-called Covenant Collection of the Torah (Exodus 20:23-23:19) is chiefly the work of a single author, is the result of intellectual interaction with the author's sources and it may have had a politically ideological purpose, somewhat similar to that of the Laws of Hammurabi.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The basic thesis and background; title: Pt. 1. Primary evidence for dependence : sequential correspondences and date; title: The casuistic laws; title: The apodictic laws; title: Date and opportunity for the use of Hammurabi's and other cuneiform laws; title: Pt. 2. Compositional logic of the covenant code; title: Debt-slavery and the seduction of a maiden (Exodus 21:2-11; 22:15-16); title: Homicide, injury, miscarriage, talion (Exodus 21:12, 18-27); title: Child rebellion, kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, illicit sacrifice (Exodus 21:12-17; 22:17-19); title: The goring ox and negligence (Exodus 21:28-36); title: Animal theft, crop destruction, deposit, and burglary (Exodus 21:37-22:8); title: Animal injury, death, and rental (Exodus 22:9-14); title: The themes and ideology of the apodictic laws (Exodus 20:23-26; 21:1; 22:20-23:19); title: Redactional growth in the apodictic laws and the covenant code's relationship to the Exodus narrative; title: Conclusions.