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Wisdom-laws : a study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16 / Bernard S. Jackson. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2006.Description: xv, 552 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198269311
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BS1245.J12.W573 2006
  • BS1245
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Contents:
Law and wisdom in biblical scholarship -- Slavery -- Homicide -- Assault -- The pregnant woman victim -- Maltreatment of slaves -- The goring ox -- Theft -- Agricultural delicts -- "Bailment" -- Seduction -- Towards an institutional history of the mishpatim -- From practical wisdom to literary artifice : towards a literary history of the mishpatim.
Subject: "The 'Mishpatim' of Exodus 21-22 are generally regarded as the earliest collection of Biblical laws. Bernard S. Jackson analyses these laws in detail, considers their relationship to both the Israelite wisdom tradition and the laws of the Ancient Near East, and offers a view of their literary and institutional history."--Jacket.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BS1245.52.B476.W573 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001743802

Wisdom-Laws -- Law and wisdom in biblical scholarship -- Slavery -- Homicide -- Assault -- The pregnant woman victim -- Maltreatment of slaves -- The goring ox -- Theft -- Agricultural delicts -- "Bailment" -- Seduction -- Towards an institutional history of the mishpatim -- From practical wisdom to literary artifice : towards a literary history of the mishpatim.

"The 'Mishpatim' of Exodus 21-22 are generally regarded as the earliest collection of Biblical laws. Bernard S. Jackson analyses these laws in detail, considers their relationship to both the Israelite wisdom tradition and the laws of the Ancient Near East, and offers a view of their literary and institutional history."--Jacket.

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