Homicide in the Biblical World
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2005
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loginHomicide in the Biblical Worldanalyzes the treatment of homicide in the HebrewBible and demonstrates that it is directly linked to the unique social structure and re-ligion of ancient Israel. Close parallels between biblical law and ancient Near Easternlaw are evident in the laws of the ox that gored and the pregnant woman who wasassaulted, but when the total picture of the process by which homicide was adjudi-cated comes into view, what is most noticeable is how little of it is similar to ancientNear Eastern law. This book reconstructs biblical law from both legal and narrativetexts and analyzes both law collections and documents from actual legal cases fromthe ancient Near East.
