The Oxford handbook of biblical law /
Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch has received new interest with detailed studies of specific biblical passages. The comparison of biblical practice to ancient Near Eastern customs has received a new impetus with the...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: vistas in the study of biblical law / Pamela Barmash
- Part I. Legal institutions and fundamental concepts. Covenant / Jan Joosten
- Social justice / Roy E. Gane
- Offenses against human beings in private and public law / Eckart Otto
- Litigation: trial procedure, jurisdiction, evidence, testimony / Eryl Wynn Davies
- Women, children, slaves and foreigners / Hilary Lipka
- Ritual l;aw: sacrifice and holy days / Aryeh Amihay
- Purity and sancta desecration in ritual law / Yitzhaq Feder
- "An eye for an eye" and capital punishment / Herbert B. Huffmon
- Part II. Legal texts of the Bible. The Decalogue / Dalit Rom-Shiloni
- The Book of the Covenant / Cynthia Edenburg
- Priestly law / Reinhard Achenbach
- Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic reform / Anselm C. Hagedorn
- Law and narrative / Assnat Bartor
- Determining the date of biblical legal texts / Pamela Barmash
- Part III. Law in the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The role of law in the formation of the Pentateuch and the canon / Thomas Kazen
- The law and the prophets / Stephen L. Cook
- Law in the wisdom tradition / James L. Crenshaw
- Part IV. The legacy of the ancient Near East context of biblical law. Ancient Near Eastern law collections and legal forms and institutions / Aaron Skaist
- Ancient Near Eastern treaties/loyalty oaths and biblical law / William S. Morrow
- Monarchy and law in the pre-exilic period / Stephen C. Russell
- Law in the Persian period / Brandon J. Simonson and Alejandro F. Botta
- Part V. The late Second Temple period and beyond: reflections on biblical law within emerging Jewish communities. The law in the late Second Temple period / John J. Collins
- Part VI. Judaism and Christianity: diverging paths in the centuries after the destruction of the Second Temple. The Bible and the sources of rabbinic law / Avi Shveka
- The law and the gospels, with attention to the relationship between the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount/Plain / Richard E. Averbeck
- Ethical and moral duties in rabbinic Judaism / Jonathan Wyn Schofer
- Paul and the covenant / John W. Welch and Jacob Rennaker
- Rabbinic law / Leib Moscovitz
- Ritual law in rabbinic Judaism / David Levine and Dalia Marx
- Women, children, and slaves in rabbinic law / Catherine Hezser
- Women, children, slaves, and the law in the New Testament period / Susan E. Hylen
- Social justice in early Christianity / Maria E. Doerfler
- Social justice in rabbinic Judaism / Tzvi Novick.