Law and narrative in the Bible and in neighbouring ancient cultures / edited by Klaus-Peter Adam, Friedrich Avemarie, Nili Wazana ; co-edited by Dorit Felsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Klaus-Peter, 1965-

Avemarie, Friedrich.

Wazana, Nili.

Series:

Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2.Reihe - Band 54

Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 1611-4914 ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--Congresses.

Jewish law.

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

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung Law is not only conveyed in codified clauses; it is often featured as a pivotal topic in literary texts. Existing legal relationships can determine the historical or the fictive setting of a drama or a plot, narratives can propagate laws or demonstrate their inherent problems. Literature can be used as an integral part of a strategy to implement legally justified demands, it can aim at correcting or even at denouncing legal rules. The authors of this volume examine literary and functional texts from the bible, the Ancient Near East, early Judaism and classical anti

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; I. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East; CORNELIA WUNSCH: Legal Narrative in the Neo-Babylonian Trial Documents: Text Reconstruction, Interpretation, and Assyriological Method; General Problems in the Legal Narratives Recorded on Clay Tablets; Restoring the Text; Reconstructing the Story in and behind the Text; The Reconstruction of Legal Narrative: Examples; A Lawsuit about Inheritance Shares; Deposition from the Eanna Temple Archive; Summary; Bibliography; Abbreviations for Text Editions and Dictionaries

WOLFGANG OSWALD: Die Exodus-Gottesberg-Erzählung als Gründungsurkunde der judäischen Bürgergemeinde1. Die Suche nach einer vordeuteronomistischen Erzählung im Buch Exodus; 2. Der narrative Rahmen der Gesetzgebung; 3. Die Literargeschichte des sog. Bundesbuches; 4. Die Gattung des so genannten Bundesbuches; 5. Das Volk als Souverän; 6. Zusammenfassung; Bibliographie; UDO RÜTERSWÖRDEN: Gesetz und Erzählung anhand der Josephsgeschichte; Bibliographie; NILI WAZANA: "For an Impaled Body is a Curse of God" (Deut 21:23): Impaled Bodies in Biblical Law and Conquest Narratives; 1. Introduction

RACHEL MAGDALENE: The Reader as Judge in the Book of Job: Interpretation and the Narrativity of Case Law1. The Implied Reader's Knowledge; 2. The Satan's Trial of Job and Yahweh; 3. Conclusions and Implications; Bibliography; JOACHIM HENGSTL: Rechtliche Anliegen in biblischen Schilderungen. Methodische Gesichtspunkte; 1. Einleitung; 2. Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Literatur; 3. Zur Quellenlage; 4. Zur Aussagequalität literarischer Quellen; 5. Bibel, Literatur und Recht; Bibliographie; II. Greece and Rome

2. Die Rolle juristischer Argumentation

Notes:

Druckversion

International conference proceedings, September 2009, Marburg.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-54197-1

9786613854421

3-16-152123-4

OCLC:

806206100