The laws of delict in the Hebrew Bible and their ancient near eastern forerunners: analysing and comparing social attitudes to crime
This article compares the ancient Near Eastern and biblical laws pertaining to delict. Since I offer an in-depth study elsewhere (Peled, forthcoming) of delict-related felonies attested in the different ancient Near Eastern law collections, the present article only touches upon this issue in brief,...
| Published in: | Journal for semitics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Unisa Press
2018
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| In: |
Journal for semitics
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Crime
/ Settlement
/ Legislation
/ Collection
/ Bible
/ Ancient Orient
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| RelBib Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Ancient Near Eastern law
B Delict B Crime in antiquity B Biblical Law B Legal History |
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| Summary: | This article compares the ancient Near Eastern and biblical laws pertaining to delict. Since I offer an in-depth study elsewhere (Peled, forthcoming) of delict-related felonies attested in the different ancient Near Eastern law collections, the present article only touches upon this issue in brief, while focusing on the pertinent biblical laws. The main questions addressed here therefore relate to the manner in which biblical law treated different delicts, and to how similar or different the attitudes to delict were in the extant ancient Near Eastern and biblical legal corpora. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25159/1013-8471/4064 HDL: 10520/EJC-13dc4f083f |