Interpreting the perennially perplexing sexual regulations of Leviticus 1820 in a radically new way, Calum M. Carmichael offers a key to understanding not only the texts themselves but also the nature of lawgiving throughout the Pentateuch. Carmichael identifies and offers solutions to puzzles such as why the lawgiver explicitly prohibits certain obviously wrongful acts (such as a son's intercourse with a mother), but not others (such as full brother with sister), why he censures children instead of adults in taboo couplings, and why rules not connected with incest (prohibiting Molech worship and intercourse with a menstruating woman) are included with rules about incest. Reading these laws against the events described in Genesis, Carmichael asserts that the conduct of biblical ancestors--from Lot's fathering of children with his daughters to Abraham's marriage to his half-sister--was the inspiration for the incest rules in Leviticus. He maintains that the Levitical codes cannot be separated from their larger narrative framework. Invaluable for biblical interpretation, Carmichael's approach also has broader applications, clarifying as it does the tendency of lawmakers to formulate general rules in response not to obvious but rather to idiosyncratic problems.
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New York, Calum Carmichael, David Daube, Old Testament, Grand Rapids, King Saul, Spirit of Biblical Law, Jacob Milgrom, Near Eastern, Biblical Interpretation, The Sequence of Topics, United States, Arie Noordtzij, David Cohen, God of Human Sacrifice, Moshe Weinfeld, Classical Athens, Claus Westermann, Das Gesetz Leviticus, Die Genesis, Genesis Rabba, Jewish Antiquities, Joseph's Egyptian, The Origins of Biblical Law New!
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New York, Calum Carmichael, David Daube, Old Testament, Grand Rapids, King Saul, Spirit of Biblical Law, Jacob Milgrom, Near Eastern, Biblical Interpretation, The Sequence of Topics, United States, Arie Noordtzij, David Cohen, God of Human Sacrifice, Moshe Weinfeld, Classical Athens, Claus Westermann, Das Gesetz Leviticus, Die Genesis, Genesis Rabba, Jewish Antiquities, Joseph's Egyptian, The Origins of Biblical Law New!
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- The Spirit of Biblical Law (The Spirit of the Laws) by Calum Carmichael on 9 pages
- Roman Law (The Gray lectures, 1966 [i.e. 1966-7]) by David Daube on page 96, page 110, and page 132
- Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens by David Cohen in Front Matter, page 37, and page 64
- Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Book 20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 456) (Bk.XX v. 13) by Josephus on page 91, page 115, and page 138
- Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Michael Fishbane on page 41, page 88, and page 155
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