Examples of Restatement in the Laws of Hammurabi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. A Colleague’s Appreciation xii
5. A Student’s Appreciation xvii
6. Abbreviations xxi
7. Bibliography of the Publications of Jeffrey H. Tigay xxvii
8. Part 1 Deuteronomic Studies
9. A Deuteronomic Voice in the Joseph Story 3
10. Textual Harmonizations in the Ancient Texts of Deuteronomy 15
11. The Visit of Jethro: A Case of Chronological Displacement? The Source-Critical Solution 29
12. Gender Transformation and Transgression: Contextualizing the Prohibition of Cross-Dressing in Deuteronomy 22:5 49
13. Dinah, ºInnah, and Related Matters 73
14. Sex and the Single Girl in Deuteronomy 22 95
15. Taking Interest in Taking Interest 113
16. “My Father Was a Wandering Aramean” (Deuteronomy 26:5) or “Edom Served My Father”? 133
17. Rewritten Deuteronomy in 1QS and in m. So † ah 7:5 139
18. The Lost Meaning of Deuteronomy 33:2 as Preserved in the Palestinian Targum to Exodus 20:2 157
19. Israelian Hebrew Features in Deuteronomy 33 . 167
20. Revealed and Concealed: The Status of the Law (Book) of Moses within the Deuteronomistic History 185
21. Deuteronomy in the Temple: An Exercise in Historical Imagining 201
22. Deuteronom(ist)ic Influences on Deutero-Isaiah 219
23. The Scribal Concern for the Torah as Evidenced by the Textual Witnesses of the Hebrew Bible 229
24. Three Midrashim Concerning Our Great Leaders, Moses and David: The Doctrine of Grace in Sifre Deuteronomy 243
25. Part 2 Ancient Israelite Religion and Its Near Eastern Context
26. One God for Many: Philological Glosses on Monotheism 253
27. The Divinity of Humankind in the Bible and the Ancient Near East: A New Mesopotamian Parallel 263
28. Does God Deceive? An Examination of the Dark Side of Isaiah’s Prophecy 275
29. The Unique Features of Ezekiel’s Sanctuary 293
30. On the Place of Psalm 21 in Israelite Royal Ideology 307
31. Myth and Syntax in Psalm 93 321
32. The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job 333
33. Part 3 Ancient Israelite Literary Tradition
34. Examples of Restatement in the Laws of Hammurabi 365
35. Literary-Critical Issues in the Hebrew Bible from an Assyriological Perspective: Additions and Omissions 401
36. Biblical Naming Reports with 415
37. The Ancient Critical Misunderstanding of Exodus 21:22–25 and Its Implications for the Current Debate on Abortion 437
38. Linen and the Linguistic Dating of P 459
39. A New Approach to Metaphor in Biblical Poetry 475
40. The Four Private Persons Who Lost Their Share in the World to Come: The Judgment of m. Sanh. 10:2 487
41. Hermeneutical Freedom and Constraint in Jewish Bible Exegesis 509
42. Index of Authors 525
43. Index of Scripture 534