Inventing God's Law: How The Covenant Code Of The Bible Used And Revised The Laws Of Hammurabi

Autori

• David P. Wright

Parametri

• 608 pagine
• 22 ore di lettura

• Giornalismo narrativo

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David Wright offers a boldly revisionist account of the origin of the so-called Covenant Collection of the Torah (Exodus 20:23-23:19). He argues that this body of law depends mainly on the Laws of Hammurabi and to some extent on other cuneiform law collections, that it is chiefly the work of a single author, and that it may have had a politically ideological purpose, somewhat similar to that of the Laws of Hammurabi.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2013

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