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Homicide in the Biblical World

Name: Homicide in the Biblical World
Price: 35.78 GBP
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Author: St Louis) Pamela Barmash (washington University
ISBN: 9780521547734

by St Louis) Pamela Barmash (washington University

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270 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
16.4 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of biblical law and history

Clarifies how biblical homicide laws differ from others

You will gain insights into ancient Israel's social structure

This book explores homicide laws in the Hebrew Bible and their unique context.

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Homicide in the Biblical World analyses the treatment of homicide in the Hebrew Bible and demonstrates that it is directly linked to the unique social structure and religion of ancient Israel. Close parallels between biblical law and ancient Near Eastern law are evident in the laws of the ox that gored and the pregnant woman who is assaulted, but, when the total picture of the process by which homicide was adjudicated comes into view, what is most noticeable is how little of it is similar to ancient Near Eastern law. This book reconstructs biblical law from both legal texts and narrative texts and analyses both the law collections and documents from actual legal cases from the ancient Near East.