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David P. Wright

Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi

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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.… Mehr

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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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