Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Historical Context of Biblical Law
- Part II The Biblical Legal Collections
- 3 The Nature of the Collections
- 4 The Origins of the Laws
- 5 The Narrative Context of the Collections
- Part III The Biblical Laws
- Part IV Biblical Law and Other Scriptural Discourses
- Part V The Legacy of Biblical Law
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Text Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
5 - The Narrative Context of the Collections
from Part II - The Biblical Legal Collections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Historical Context of Biblical Law
- Part II The Biblical Legal Collections
- 3 The Nature of the Collections
- 4 The Origins of the Laws
- 5 The Narrative Context of the Collections
- Part III The Biblical Laws
- Part IV Biblical Law and Other Scriptural Discourses
- Part V The Legacy of Biblical Law
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Text Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the narrative scheme surrounding each collection and how the god Yhwh is drawn as a character in each source, speaking in an array of cadences and registers that conjure their associated types of speakers. Rather than biblical law making Israelite law into divine speech, biblical literature presents all forms of divine speech as fully compelling law.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible , pp. 95 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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