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'The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law' provides a state of the art analysis of the major questions, principles, and texts pertinent to biblical law. The thirty-three chapters, written by an international team of experts, deal with the concepts, significant texts, institutions, and procedure...

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Other Authors: Barmash, Pamela, 1966- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
Subjects:
Jewish law.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Pre-Exilic Monarchy and the Law / Stephen C. Russell
  • The Deuteronomic Reform / Anselm C. Hagedorn
  • Law and Narratives / Assnat Bartor
  • The Bible and the Sources of Rabbinic Law / Avi Shveka
  • Women, Children, and Slaves in Jewish Law / Catherine Hezser
  • The Book of the Covenant / Cynthia Edenburg
  • The Decalogue / Dalit Rom-Shiloni
  • Litigation: Trial Procedure, Jurisdiction, Evidence, Testimony / Eryl Wynn Davies
  • "An Eye for an Eye" and Capital Punishment / Herbert B. Huffmon
  • Covenant / Jan Joosten
  • Law and the Prophets / Stephen L. Cook
  • Law in the Late Second Temple Period in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in Intertestamental and Diaspora Sources / John J. Collins
  • Paul and the Covenant / John W. Welch, Jacob Rennaker
  • Ethics and Moral Duties in Jewish Law / Jonathan Wyn Schofer
  • Rabbinic Law / Leib Moscovitz
  • Social Justice in Rabbinic Judaism / Tzvi Novick
  • Law and the Wisdom Tradition / James L. Crenshaw
  • The Priestly Law / Reinhard Achenbach
  • The Law and the Gospels, with Attention to the Relationship between the Decalouge and the Sermon on the Mount/Plain / Richard E. Averbeck
  • Determining the Date of the Legal Texts of the Hebrew Bible / Pamela Barmash
  • The Role of Law in the Formation of the Pentateuch and the Canon / Thomas Kazen
  • Law in the Persian Period / Alejandro F. Botta, Brandon J. Simonson
  • Ancient Near Eastern Treaties and Biblical Law / William S. Morrow
  • Ritual Law: Priests, Purity, and the Sanctuary / Yitzhaq Feder
  • Ritual Law in Rabbinic Judaism / Dalia Marx, David Levine
  • Ritual Law: Sacrifice and Holy Days / Aryeh Amihay
  • Introduction / Pamela Barmash
  • Women, Children, Slaves, and the Law in the New Testament Period / Susan E. Hylen
  • Social Justice in Early Christianity / Maria E. Doerfler
  • Social Justice / Roy E. Gane
  • Women, Children, Slaves, and Foreigners / Hilary Lipka
  • Offences Against Human Beings in Public and Private Law / Eckart Otto
  • Law Collections and Legal Forms and Institutions / Aaron Skaist.