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
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
On Dating Biblical Texts to the Persian Period
Discerning Criteria and Establishing Epochs
Volume 101
Dieu educateur
Une novelle approche d'un concept de la thologie biblique entre Bible Hebraique, Septante et littrature grecque classique
Volume 77
Prophetic Polyphony
Allusion Criticism of Isa 41,8-16.17-20; 43,1-7; 44,1-5 in a Dialogical Approach
Volume 113
Die Wallfahrt zum Zweiten Tempel
Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Wallfahrtsfeste in vorhasmonaischer Zeit
Volume 40
Die These der sogenannten ‘Konsekutivtempora’ im klassischen Althebraisch
Eine kritische Uberprufung
Volume 150
Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature
Copenhagen Conference Proceedings 7-10 May 2017
Volume 103
Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations
Gathering and Fitting Unhewn Stones
Volume 142
Intertextualitat und die Entstehung des Psalters
Methodische Reflexionen - Theologiegeschichtliche Perspektiven
Volume 114
The Compilational History of the Megilloth
Canon, Contoured Intertextuality and Meaning in the Writings
Volume 59
Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives
A Study of the Dynamic Interaction Behind the Textual Growth of P and Non-P
Volume 153
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