The signs of sin : seriousness of offence in biblical law / Jonathan P. Burnside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnside, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Patrick)

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 364.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 364

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law (Theology)--Biblical teaching.

Law (Theology).

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of ""seriousness of offence"" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed by different people or when performed in different ways. Recurring

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 DETERMINING SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE IN BIBLICAL LAW; Chapter 2 THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE: SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE AND DEUTERONOMY 21.18-21; Chapter 3 LINEAGE, TITLE AND THE BAREFOOT MAN: SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE AND DEUTERONOMY 25.5-10; Chapter 4 PROSTITUTION AND THE JEALOUSY OF GOD AND MAN: SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE IN LEVITICUS 21.9 AND DEUTERONOMY 22.20-21; Chapter 5 SIN, STATUS AND SACRIFICE: SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE AND LEVITICUS 4:1-35

Chapter 6 THE SHEKHINAH DEPARTS: SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE AND EZEKIEL 8.1-18Chapter 7 SERIOUSNESS OF OFFENCE IN BIBLICAL LAW; Chapter 8 CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Based on author's Ph. D. thesis (University of Liverpool, 1999).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611803025

9781281803023

1281803022

9780567346742

0567346749

OCLC:

276857948