The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law provides a state of the art analysis of the major questions, principles, and texts pertinent to biblical law. The thirty-three chapters, written by an international team of experts, deal with the concepts, significant texts, institutions, and procedures of biblical law; the intersection of law with religion, socio-economic circumstances, and politics; and the reinterpretation of biblical law in the emerging Jewish andChristian communities. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among scholars working in biblical law.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Legal Institutions and Fundamental Concepts
- Covenant
- Social Justice
- Offences Against Human Beings in Public and Private Law
- Litigation: Trial Procedure, Jurisdiction, Evidence, Testimony
- Women, Children, Slaves, and Foreigners
- Ritual Law: Sacrifice and Holy Days
- Ritual Law: Priests, Purity, and the Sanctuary
- "An Eye for an Eye and Capital Punishment
- Legal Texts of the Bible
- The Decalogue
- The Book of the Covenant
- The Priestly Law
- The Holiness Legislation
- The Deuteronomic Reform
- Law and Narratives
- Determining the Date of the Legal Texts of the Hebrew Bible
- Law in the Canon of the Hebrew Bible
- The Role of Law in the Formation of the Pentateuch and the Canon
- The Law and the Prophets
- Law and the Wisdom Tradition
- The Legacy of the Ancient Near East Context of Biblical Law
- Law Collections and Legal Forms and Institutions
- Ancient Near Eastern Treaties and Biblical Law
- The Pre-Exilic Monarchy and the Law
- Law in the Persian Period
- The Late Second Temple Period and Beyond -- Reflections on Biblical Law Within Emerging Jewish Communities
- Law in the Late Second Temple Period in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in Intertestamental and Diaspora Sources
- Judaism and Christianity: Diverging Paths in the Centuries after the Destruction of the Second Temple
- The Bible and the Sources of Rabbinic Law
- The Law and the Gospels, with Attention to the Relationship Between the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount/Plain
- Ethics and Moral Duties in Jewish Law
- Paul and the Covenant
- Rabbinic Law
- Ritual Law in Rabbinic Judaism
- Women, Children, and Slaves in Jewish Law
- Women, Children, Slaves, and the Law in the New Testament Period
- Social Justice in Early Christianity
- Social Justice in Rabbinic Judaism
