Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections: The Legal Legacy of the Ancient Near East - Couverture souple

Greengus, Samuel

 
9781608999460: Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections: The Legal Legacy of the Ancient Near East
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1608999467 ISBN 13 : 9781608999460
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2011

Synopsis

The remarkable discovery of ancient Near Eastern law collections or "codes," beginning with the Laws of Hammurabi and followed by many other collections in decades following, opened a new window upon biblical law. This volume seeks to examine within a single study all of the biblical laws that are similar in content with ancient Near Eastern laws from Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Hatti. The book also examines a small but important group of early rabbinic laws from postbiblical times that exhibit significant similarities with laws found in the ancient Near Eastern collections or "codes." This later group of laws, although absent from the Bible, are nevertheless of comparable antiquity. The presentation focuses on the actual law statements preserved in these ancient law "codes." The discussion then adds narratives, records, and reports of legal actions from ancient sources outside the laws-all of which relate to the formal law statements. The discourse is non-polemical in tone and does not seek to revisit all theories and interpretations. The format allows readers, including those who are new to the subject of biblical law, to engage the primary sources on their own.

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À propos de l?auteur

Samuel Greengus is Julian Morgenstern Emeritus Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of Old Babylonian Tablets from Ishchali and Vicinity (1979) and Studies in Ishchali Documents (1986).

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1608999467
ISBN 13 
9781608999460
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
354
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  1498213286 ISBN 13 :  9781498213288
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011
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