Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures
edited by Klaus-Peter Adam, Friedrich Avemarie, Dorit Felsch and Nili Wazana
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 antiquity. They choose from the fields of constitutional law, litigation, family law, property and inheritance law, damages, punishment, privilege and maintenance.
Cornelia Wunsch : Legal Narrative in the Neo-Babylonian Trial Documents: Text Reconstruction, Interpretation, and Assyriological Method - Wolfgang Oswald : Die Exodus-Gottesberg-Erzahlung als Grundungsurkunde der judaischen Burgergemeinde - Udo Rutersworden : Gesetz und Erzahlung anhand der Josephsgeschichte - Nili Wazana : For an Impaled Body is a Curse of God (Deut 21:23): Impaled Bodies in Biblical Law and Conquest Narratives - Klaus-Peter Adam : A Didactic Case Narrative on Homicide Law: 1 Samuel 26 - Rachel Magdalene : The Reader as Judge in the Book of Job: Interpretation and the Narrativity of Case Law - Joachim Hengstl : Rechtliche Anliegen in biblischen Schilderungen. Methodische Gesichtspunkte - Susanne Godde : Recht ohne Gesetz? Szenarien der Rechtssprechung bei Homer, Hesiod und Aischylos - Stefan Krauter : Rechtsnorm und Beispielerzahlung im Dienste der Uberzeugung. M. Tullius Cicero, De domo sua ad pontifices - Beate Ego: Diejenigen, welche die Wahrheit tun, werden Gelingen haben in ihren Werken (Tob 4,6). Law und narrative im Buch Tobit - Cana Werman: Narrative in the Service of Halakha: Abraham, Prince Mastema, and the Paschal Offering in Jubilees - Lutz Doering: Reinheit und Tempel. Ein Beitrag zum Verhaltnis von Law und Narrative im Jubilaenbuch - Tal Ilan : Babatha the Killer-Wife: Literature, Folk Religion and Documentary Papyri - Catherine Hezser : Orality, Textuality, and Memory in the Transmission of Rabbinic Legal Narratives - Lukas Bormann : Das Lukasevangelium als tragische Geschichtserzahlung vom Zusammenbruch der Rechtsgemeinschaft des Judentums in Galilaa und Judaa - Douglas A. Hume : Sharing All Things in Common: Narrative, Alienation, and the Friendship Ethos in Acts 2:41-47 and 4:32-35 - Eyal Regev : The Gradual Conversion of Gentiles in Acts and Luke's Paradox of the Gentile Mission - Friedrich Avemarie : The Apostolic Decree and the Jewishness of Luke's Paul: On the Narrative Function of Acts 15:23-29
- Edited by Klaus-Peter Adam
- Edited by Friedrich Avemarie
- Edited by Dorit Felsch
- Edited by Nili Wazana
Other Titles in this Series
Monotheism and Institutions in the Book of Chronicles
Temple, Priesthood, and Kingship in Post-Exilic Perspective. Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism. Vol. I
Volume 64
Narrative Analogy in the David Story
Parallels between Genesis 25-50 and 1 Samuel 16-1 Kings 2
Volume 154
God’s Enduring Love in the Book of Hosea
A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Hosea 11:1-11
Volume 14
The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible
Language and Boundaries of Self and Other
Volume 138
Silent or Salient Gender?
The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46, and 49
Volume 32
Contesting Labeled Identities
The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature
God, His Servant, and the Nations in Isaiah 42:1-9
Biblical Theological Reflections after Brevard S. Childs and Hans Hubner
Volume 73
The Retributive and Suffering God of the Book of Jeremiah
A Study of YHWH's 'Azab-Complaints
Volume 140
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The Body
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Breaking New Ground in John
Imagery, Parables, Characters, Christology, and Ethics in the Fourth Gospel
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But the Wise Shall Understand
Reuse of Prophecies, Chronotope, and Merging of Eschatological Horizons in Daniel 10-12
Creation Concepts and Creation Care
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The Colonial Worldview of the Book of Joshua
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Paul and Sacrifice in Corinth
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