Title: Inventing God's law
Subtitle: how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi
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.
Subjects: Sources, Bible, Criticism, interpretation, Code of Hammurabi, Ancient Law, Law, Extra-canonical parallels, Book of the Covenant, Codex hammoerabi, 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament, The Ten Commandments, Exodus (bible book), Cuneiform inscriptions
Places: Middle East