Law Power And Justice In Ancient Israel

Author : Douglas A. Knight
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664221440
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel written by Douglas A. Knight and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to reflect the interests of those in power, the majority of ancient Israelites--located in villages--developed their own unwritten customary laws to regulate behavior and resolve legal conflicts in their own communities. This book includes numerous examples from village, city, and cult. --from publisher description

Author : Pietro Bovati
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567114449
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-establishing Justice written by Pietro Bovati and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this very significant work, translated from the Italian, Bovati examines in careful detail the practice of justice in ancient Israel, first the bilateral controversy (the rib), and then the legal judgement properly speaking. "Re-establishing Justice" is destined to become the standard reference work in the field. The contents deal with 1. The juridical dispute in general. 2 The accusation, 3 The response of the accused, 4 The reconciliation , 5. Judgement in court, 6.The acts and procedures preceding the debate , 7. The debate, 8. The sentence and execution.

Author : Myer Galinski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780866890236
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursue Justice written by Myer Galinski and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moshe Weinfeld
Publisher : Hebrew University Magnes Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East written by Moshe Weinfeld and published by Hebrew University Magnes Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and informative work, Weinfeld investigates the ideal of justice in relation to social reforms promoted by Israelite monarchy, the implications of the ideal in individual life, and the theological implications of all aspects of the concept.

Author : Yael Landman
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1951498879
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Writing, Legal Practice written by Yael Landman and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prescriptive law writings rarely mirror the ways a society practices law, a fact that raises special problems for the social and legal historian. Through close analysis of the laws of bailment (i.e., temporary safekeeping) in Exodus 22, Yael Landman probes the relationship of law in the biblical law collections and law-in-practice in ancient Israel and exposes a vision of divine justice at the heart of pentateuchal law. Landman further demonstrates that ancient Near Eastern bailment laws continue to influence postbiblical Jewish law. This book advances an approach to the study of biblical law that connects pentateuchal and ancient Near Eastern law collections, biblical narrative and prophecy, and Mesopotamian legal documents and joins philological and comparative analysis with humanistic legal approaches, in order to access how people thought about and practiced law in ancient Israel.

Author : Robert F. Cochran
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830825738
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and the Bible written by Robert F. Cochran and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is full of law. Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any moral judgment the Bible expresses should become the law of the land. Law and the Bible asks: What inspired light does the Bible shed on Christians’ participation in contemporary legal systems? It concludes that more often than not the Bible overturns our faulty assumptions and skewed commitments rather than bolsters them. In the process, God gives us greater insight into what all of life, including law, should be. Each chapter is cowritten by a legal professional and a theologian, and focuses on a key aspect of the biblical witness concerning civil or positive law--that is, law that human societies create to order their communities, implementing and enforcing it through civil government. A foundational text for legal professionals, law and prelaw students, and all who want to think in a faithfully Christian way about law and their relationship to it.

Author : Harold V. Bennett
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802825745
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injustice Made Legal written by Harold V. Bennett and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scriptural laws dealing with widows, strangers, and orphans are conventionally viewed as rules meant to aid the plight of vulnerable persons in ancient Israelite society. In Injustice Made Legal Harold V. Bennett challenges this perspective, arguing instead that key sanctions found in Deuteronomy were actually drafted by a powerful elite to enhance their own material condition and keep the peasantry down." Building his case on a careful analysis of life in the ancient world and on his understanding of critical law theory, Bennett views Deuteronomic law through the eyes of the needy in Israelite society. His unique approach uncovers the previously neglected link between politico-economic interests and the formulation of law. The result is a new understanding of law in the Hebrew Bible and the ways it worked to support and maintain the dehumanization of widows, strangers, and orphans in the biblical community.

Author : Anthony Phillips
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Israel's Criminal Law written by Anthony Phillips and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036151
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law written by Christine Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

Author : Millard C. Lind
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498232655
Total Pages : 281 pages
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Download or read book Monotheism, Power, Justice written by Millard C. Lind and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the mid-sixties, a steady stream of essays and addresses has come from the pen and heart of Millard Lind. Millard began his teaching career at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in 1959. During the early years of his teaching a major portion of Millard's scholarly energies went toward the refinement of his doctoral dissertation, in order to be published. Its final form appeared in the Herald Press book, Yahweh Is a Warrior. This book represents a landmark in studies on the topic of Yahweh's warfare as presented in the Hebrew Scriptures. It has numerous critical reviews, and has generally stood the test of the scholarly picking and pruning. Alongside this major work Millard has turned out numerous essays, some playing a supportive role to his Yahweh Is a Warrior thesis, but many pioneering in new directions as well. As the four divisions in the table of contents indicate, these essays represent work in at least four areas of probing in the Hebrew Scriptures: method; aspects of law, justice, and power; war and economics; and worship, mission, and community. This range of investigation and productivity indicates the holistic perspective of Millard's scholarly concern and theological reflection. In part it also testifies to Millard's role as a churchman, since some of these investigations grew out of specific requests of various groups or congregations to address a particular issue." --From the Foreword by William Swartley