Skip to main content
  • free

    Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.

    FREE delivery on orders over £10

  • UK

    Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK

    with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies

  • Church

    Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used

    by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools

  • Excellent 4.8 out of 5

    Trustpilot

Eden.co.uk

Lex Talionis in Early Judaism and the Exhortation of Jesus in Matthew 5.38-42

[Hardback]

by James Davis

    • Author

      James Davis

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      February 2005

    Read full description

    Today's Price

    £153.72

    Free delivery icon

    Free UK Delivery

    Available - Usually dispatched within 3 days

    Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

    • Paypal
    • Google Pay
    • Apple Pay
    • Visa
    • Mastercard
    • Amex

    Lex Talionis in Early Judaism and the Exhortation of Jesus in Matthew 5.38-42

    Today's Price £153.72

    You Might Also Like...

    Product Description

    In Matthew 5:38-42, Jesus overrides the Old Testament teaching of 'an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth' - the Lex Talionis law - and commands his disciples to turn the other cheek. James Davis asks how Jesus' teaching in this instance relates to the Old Testament talionic commands, how it relates to New Testament era Judaism and what Jesus required from his disciples and the church. Based on the Old Testament texts such as Leviticus 24, Exodus 22 and Deuteronomy 19, a strong case can be made that the Lex Talionis law was understood to have a literal application there are several texts that text of Leviticus 24 provides the strongest case that a literal and judicial application. However, by the second century AD and later, Jewish rabbinic leadership was essentially unified that the OT did not require a literal talion, but that financial penalties could be substituted in court matters. Yet there is evidence from Philo, Rabbi Eliezer and Josephus that in the first century AD the application of literal talion in judicial matters was a major and viable Jewish viewpoint at the time of Jesus. Jesus instruction represents a different perspective from the OT lex talionis texts and also, possibly, from the Judaism of his time. Jesus commands the general principle of not retaliation against the evil person and intended this teaching to be concretely applied, as borne out in his own life. JSNTS

    Specification

    • Author

      James Davis

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      February 2005

    • Weight

      473g

    • Page Count

      210

    • Dimensions

      156 x 234 x 13 mm

    • ISBN

      9780567041500

    • ISBN-10

      0567041506

    • Eden Code

      1152111

    More Information

    • Author/Creator: James Davis

    • ISBN: 9780567041500

    • Publisher: Continuum

    • Release Date: February 2005

    • Weight: 473g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 13 mm

    • Eden Code: 1152111

    Product Q+A

    Ask a Question

    Recently Viewed