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Raymond Westbrook / Bruce Wells: Everyday Law in Biblical Israel


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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitaltobiblrech.17.2011.0308




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1 Raymond Westbrook/Bruce Wells: Everyday Law in Biblical Israel. An Introduction, Louisville 2998 (XI. + 156 p.).

2 F. Rachel Magdalene, Legal Science Then and Now: Theory and Method in the Work of Raymond Westbrook, Maʿarav, forthcoming. My thanks to Dr. Magdalene for sharing this article with me prior to its publication.

3 F.R. Magdalene, Legal Science Then and Now.

4 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 1.

5 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 3.

6 E. Adamson Hoebel, The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics, Cambridge 1954, 28.

7 A.S. Diamond, Primitive Law Past and Present, London 1971, 126–27.

8 See Jay W. Marshall, Israel and the Book of the Covenant: An Anthropological Approach to Biblical Law, SBL.DS 140, Atlanta 1993, 29–32. Distinctions between law and moral instructions also come into consideration in such discussions; see, e.g., Eckart Otto, Theologische Ethik des Alten Testaments, ThW 3/2, Stuttgart 1994, 64–67; Ralf Rothenbusch, Die kasuistische Rechtssammlung in ‘Bundesbuch’ (Ex 21,2–11,.18–22,16) und ihr literarischer Kontext im Licht altorientalischer Parallelen, AOAT 259, Münster 2000, 408–73.

9 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 3–4.

10 Bernard S. Jackson, Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1–22:16, Oxford 2006, 16.

11 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 11.

12 See, e.g., Jackson, Wisdom-Law, 10–16.

13 A.S. Diamond, Primitive Law, 4–5.

14 Zeev Falk, Hebrew Law in Biblical Times 2nd ed., Provo 2001, 16; H.J. Boecker, Law and the Administration of Justice in the Old Testament and Ancient East, Minneapolis 1980, 166–67; J.W. Marshall, Israel and the Book of the Covenant, 177–80.

15 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 45.

16 Adrian Schenker, Keine Versöhnung ohne Anerkennung der Haftung für verursachten Schaden: Die Rolle von Haftung and Intentionalität in den Opfern חטאת und אשם (Lev 4–5) in: ders. Recht und Kult im Alten Testament: Achtzehn Studien, OBO 172, Freiburg – Göttingen 2000, 113–22.

17 See, e.g., Timothy M. Willis, Leviticus, Nashville 2009, 49.

18 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 3.

19 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 77–78.

20 Erhard S. Gerstenberger, ‘… (He/They) Shall Be Put to Death:’ Live-Preserving Divine Threats in Old Testament Law, Ex Auditu 11, 1995, 54.

21 See the discussion in Jan C. Gertz, Die Gerichtsorganisation Israels im deuteronomischen Gesetz, FRLANT 165, Göttingen 1994.

22 R. Westbrook/B. Wells, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel, 11.

23 Dale Patrick, Old Testament Law, Atlanta 1985.

24 J.W. Marshall, Israel and the Book of the Covenant (n. 7); Mary Douglas, The Abominations of Leviticus in: ders. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, New York 1966, 51–71.

25 Harold V. Bennett, Injustice Made Legal: Deuteronomic Law and the Plight of Widows, Strangers, and Orphans in Ancient Israel, Grand Rapids 2002; Cheryl B. Anderson, Women, Ideology, and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Law, JSOT.S 394, London 2004.

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