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The Laws of the Imperialized: Understanding Exodus 19-24 as a Response to Imperial Legal Traditions

  • Paperback
  • 306 pages
  • Publisher: Langham Academic
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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For students and scholars of Old Testament law

Analyzes Exodus laws against imperial cultures

Helps you understand ancient responses to power

Explore the fascinating relationship between biblical law and imperial power in this scholarly study.

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Being the first legal corpus in the biblical canon, Exodus 19-24 is a law collection that belonged to a people living under the shadow of empire. Using an integrated approach of postcolonial studies and historical-comparative analysis, this important study analyzes the relationship between the laws given to the Israelites on Mount Sinai and cuneiform law collections. Dr. Anna Lo skillfully integrates postcolonial understandings of the colonized people to explore how the similarities and differences reflect the imperialized authors' wrestling with the imperial legal metanarrative and subjugation of their time. This investigation into the dynamic of acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance invites attention to this selection of Scripture as a work of conservative revolutionists. Dr. Lo's thorough work provides an important way forward for scholars to consider responses of the imperialized to empires in the past as well as to reflect on their own response to hegemonic domination today.

  • Title

    The Laws of the Imperialized: Understanding Exodus 19-24 as a Response to Imperial Legal Traditions

  • Author

    Chung Man Anna Lo

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Langham Academic

  • Published

    April 2024

  • Weight

    414g

  • Page Count

    306

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781839738807

  • ISBN-10

    1839738804

  • Eden Code

    6785731