Sara J Milstein

Gebundenes Buch

Making a Case

The Practical Roots of Biblical Law

Beschreibung

Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law challenges the long-held notion that Israelite and Judahite scribes either made use of "old" law collections or set out to produce law collections in the Near Eastern sense of the genre. Sara J. Milstein instead proposes that what we call "biblical law" is closer in form and function to another, oft-neglected Mesopotamian genre: legal-pedagogical texts. During their education, Mesopotamian scribes studied a variety of legal-oriented school texts: sample contracts, fictional cases, sequences of non-canonical law, and legal phrasebooks. When Exodus 20-23 and Deuteronomy 12-26 are viewed in the context of these legal-pedagogical texts from Mesopotamia, their practical roots in comparable (lost) legal exercises begin to emerge.

Autor

Sara J. Milstein is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her last monograph, Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (OUP, 2016) was the recipient of ASOR's Frank Moore Cross Award. Milstein's research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Killam Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190911805
• ISBN-10: 0190911808
• Artikelnr.: 62537030