Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi
In this book David Wright draws on three of his influential published essays to create a boldly revisionist account of the origin of the so-called Covenant Collection of the Torah (Exodus 20:23-23:19). He argues that this body of law depends mainly on the Laws of Hammurabi and to some extent on other cuneiform law collections, that it is chiefly the work of a single author, that it is to a significant degree the result of intellectual interaction with the author'ssources rather than a collection of Israelite/Judean legal traditions, and that it may have had a politically ideological purpose, somewhat similar to that of the Laws of Hammurabi.…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-530475-6
- EAN: 9780195304756
- Produktnummer: 22677645
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 589 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.7 cm 993 g
- Gewicht: 993
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David Wright is the Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East at Brandeis University
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