Analyzing the treatment of homicide in the Hebrew Bible, this study demonstrates that it is directly linked to the social structure and religion of ancient Israel. Pamela Barmash reconstructs biblical law from both legal texts and narrative texts and analyzes the law collections and documents of actual legal cases from the ancient Near East.
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"...a fine scholarly endeavor suited for other critical scholars and graduate students...addresses many interesting topics connected to laws concerning homicide." - Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Robert Karl Gnuse, Loyola University
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Homicide in the Biblical World analyzes the treatment of homicide in the Hebrew Bible and demonstrates that it is directly linked to the social structure and religion of ancient Israel. This book reconstructs biblical law from both legal texts and narrative texts and analyzes both the law collections and documents from actual legal cases from the ancient Near East.
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I BEGAN this project interested in the question of how much of biblical law was transplanted from the law of the rest of the ancient Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cuneiform law collections, din napistim, casuistic statutes, accidental slayer, altar asylum, accidental killer, biblical statutes, intentional killer, blood avenger, unlawful death, casuistic form, sixty shekels, accidental homicide, tribal period, palace scribe, ward authorities, lex talionis, biblical law, intentional homicide, fatal assault, scribal tradition, person strikes, formal collections Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Covenant Code, Hebrew Bible, Near East, Book of the Covenant, Laws of Hammurapi, New York, First Temple, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents, Winona Lake, Second Temple, Ancient Mesopotamia, Cambridge University Press, Das Bundesbuch, History of the Cities of Refuge, New Haven, Old Babylonian, Biblical Criminal Law, Scholars Press, The Sanctuary of Silence, Alten Testament, Succession Narrative, United States, University of Chicago Press, Avi Hurvitz, Basil Blackwell New!
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I BEGAN this project interested in the question of how much of biblical law was transplanted from the law of the rest of the ancient Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cuneiform law collections, din napistim, casuistic statutes, accidental slayer, altar asylum, accidental killer, biblical statutes, intentional killer, blood avenger, unlawful death, casuistic form, sixty shekels, accidental homicide, tribal period, palace scribe, ward authorities, lex talionis, biblical law, intentional homicide, fatal assault, scribal tradition, person strikes, formal collections Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Covenant Code, Hebrew Bible, Near East, Book of the Covenant, Laws of Hammurapi, New York, First Temple, Fifty Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents, Winona Lake, Second Temple, Ancient Mesopotamia, Cambridge University Press, Das Bundesbuch, History of the Cities of Refuge, New Haven, Old Babylonian, Biblical Criminal Law, Scholars Press, The Sanctuary of Silence, Alten Testament, Succession Narrative, United States, University of Chicago Press, Avi Hurvitz, Basil Blackwell New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Neo-Assyrian Judicial Procedures (State Archives of Assyria Studies Vol 5) by Remko Jas on 5 pages
- The Laws of Eshnunna (Ancient Near East) by Reuven Yaron on 5 pages
- The Ancient Mesopotamian City by Marc Van De Mieroop on 5 pages
- Prolegomena to the History of Israel by Julius Wellhausen on 4 pages
- The Disposal of Impurity by David P. Wright on 4 pages
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- Homicide in the Biblical World by Pamela Barmash in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence by Hector Avalos on page 171, and Back Matter
- Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16 by Bernard S. Jackson in Back Matter
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